The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) animation

[@augustoalvarez6766]

Considering this came out in 1912... goddamn this is impressive!

[@ogithesergal4182]

Also those are real dead bugs.

[@skabogatoXVIII]

Yeah about the same time the Titanic sunk the same year not months

[@MrEyes-xh4bb]

back then, the animation was so advanced that people thought they trained bugs to act

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

Ling Ling this is very true. The audience did actually believe he tought live bugs to act, which would amazing if that did happen.

[@booploops22]

@@SQUAREHEADSAM1912 It would have been something to have a collection of short insect films by this guy

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

FengxianLeTerrible it really would have

[@mandarin1257]

The bugs are real dead ones.

[@MrEyes-xh4bb]

@@mandarin1257yes, which is probably why so many people thought they were trained to act by this guy

[@faitht8952]

Fun fact: the bugs are so realistic because they're actual bugs. He used dead bugs as the puppets.

[@brokenbiscuit3609]

Yes. he did

[@ytparchivefoundationytpaf3079]

Midnight Star I wonder if he killed them or bought feeding bugs

[@BigGucciAli]

YTPArchiveFoundation YTPAF you wondering too hard about that one now

[@ytparchivefoundationytpaf3079]

Leonadus Ali yep I know. Still wondering tho. If we'll ever find out

[@hazmat4938]

Madlad

[@ChupeTTe]

A Bugs Life Adult cut.

[@Saltboi1823]

Hee hee hee

[@LBFlowers32]

It's somehow distrubing and impressive how the director puppeting dead bugs

[@whiskersnbeans]

I don't mean to be THAT person, but that description is almost entirely wrong. It's the husband who was filmed by the dragonfly's other suitor, and the other suitor exacts revenge on the husband by showing the film while the husband and his wife are at the theater.

[@bentonrucker9012]

I think you're in the right.

[@themrpattel]

also they aren't realistic puppets he used real dead bugs

[@pumpquin.]

Your comment matches your pfp

[@Aaooee]

Something like that.... and at the very end, the theater sets fire, leading to the two characters in jail. When the projectionist was away the film was volatile in the unattended projection lighting. . Film stock was a flammable nitrate at the time.

[@Pannadela]

Only 1900s kids remember

[@YeahitsMeSylvia]

Where are all the 1910. homies at?

[@liopleurodon2000]

I cannot imagine how hard it was to animate those dead bugs. Their legs must have fallen off every five seconds

[@thegamerboi._.8526]

I wonder how the grasshoppers legs did

[@theg-meister8437]

the bugs legs melted off from the heat of the heat lamp when he was making this so his wife replaced the legs with metal legs to keep them from melting

[@andrewberrocal2281]

It's hard to believe that their are people who are still alive when this was made. Time feels so small. The Oldest living person alive today would have been just old enough to see and remember this in a theater.

[@BigGucciAli]

Not creepy but ahead of its time to be 1900s. This is creative

[@alondathomas293]

Lol---it's like Starewicz forsaw reality TV shows and soap operas or something.

[@wormdeath]

This stuff's more intense than any drama/action film I've seen

[@thepokeybird]

I like the servant beetles and their shoes

[@jermfanaccount]

Delfino Luigi I W I L L S T U F F Y O U A L L I N T H E C R U S T

[@cattycorner8]

burger I noticed that too!

[@kristinbanani3254]

It's insane watching this, knowing someone made this with actual dead insects.

[@juanvargas9]

A cautionary tale, with a film within a film. A precursor to all the elements of fine moviemaking, narrative, suspense, irony, set production, lighting, and fine acting, par excellence.

[@theimperialcombine]

for 1912 standards you got to admit This is very impressive stop motion, sure they used dead bugs but that doesn't stop how impressive the stop motion is.

[@firstnamelastname-xl7ss]

For a movie made in 1912 i gotta say good skills cause it looks like an old 2010 stop motion youtube video

[@IgnatSolovey]

Watch his 1930 Renard the Fox. At times it looks far more advanced than all puppet animation in subsequent 90 years...

[@erinsmith7461]

And the bugs are real, it's a stop action movie. Wlaydyslaw used dead bugs.

[@Mandude4200]

This is one of the most disturbing yet charming films I’ve ever seen

[@ohnahtayyy_]

this would honestly make a great telenovela

[@TylerMcNamer]

Seeing something like this in theaters must have been a real treat!

[@BrianMarcWhittaker]

So much drama! Wow. Like an episode of Jerry Springer.

[@elijahblechman8633]

it was a send up of Russian parlor drams which where popular at the time

[@ajreyez2981]

Fun fact: people thought the creator trained bugs to preform

[@michaelbrandt5416]

This totally amazing considering it takes months of work of stop motion to just film something like 5 minutes. Wonder how many other gems are out there from that time nobody knows of.

[@softchad5536]

I'm here cause a friend shared it on a discord server

[@s.m.l.8771]

we here with the boiz to study the ways of motha russa for educational purposes

[@_Spy_]

Yes, comrade!

[@chrisp7900]

Da mi comrad!!

[@chrisp7900]

Spazonie

[@5Mariner]

The more I watch, the more fascinating i find this. I am aghast that people were able to make something like this so far back in the day!

[@sausagethegodofcurry]

this stop motion from 1912 is better than most stop motions I've seen in the past few years.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

"No live insects were harmed in the making of this film."

[@deaduser2293]

GAY DRAGONFLY NIGHT CLUB

[@ytparchivefoundationytpaf3079]

cupboy 19 I don't know if you know but gay meant happy back then and gays were called "queers"

[@gonzalot.605]

Most likely, the movie was translated decades before people decided to give the word ''gay'' other use.

[@PEGGLORE]

My grandfather who died a couple years back was called Geoffrey Alan Young. On his metal napkin ring it had G.A.Y. engraved on it. Oh how my dad and brother used to laugh at the dinner table to ourselves, grandpa totally oblivious to what it was we found so funny about his napkin.

[@cattycorner8]

"The dancer there understood him"

[@LOTUS-ARTS001]

translation: happy dragonfly nightclub

[@chrischung720]

5 beetles exposed in theaters by aggressive grasshoppers disliked this video

[@Ereedell]

Chris Chung make that 6

[@drowsy7921]

I would really like to write a book based off of this film, this is amazing! It's insanely creative! I love it!

[@Pannadela]

Someone should make sequel to this...

[@karenstrong6734]

Pannadela I don’t think their should sequel, A sequel seems unnecessary.

[@warriorsorb1111]

Creepy or not, this is very artistic.

[@ClamChowdaEnjoya]

106 years old

[@Rorschach97]

This is very impressive for 1912

[@cattycorner8]

Amazing! Very detailed, good storyline!

[@Frserthegreenengine]

Still better than any Michael Bay film

[@karenstrong6734]

Fraser Bathgate damn right it is.

[@turkboi8814]

THIS IS SOME DAMN GOOD CGI

[@alondathomas293]

This was made 65 years before CGI was even invented.

[@-throat-]

Kirk Wood - I think that was the joke

[@edgeal4379]

Blameitonjorge?

[@KapitanPazur1]

Excusemewhatjohn?

[@kachiggamybigga9481]

EdgeAl me.

[@maximoran9863]

Yes!

[@thebraineater4630]

yaaaaa!

[@connerwalker4080]

Yeh

[@nicrusick4642]

I hate when my bug boyfriend comes over and then my bug husband comes home from his bug business trip

[@kittycubeenterprises7276]

The camera man the 1910s exqivalent of trolls

[@bomberdude9874]

Crazy that this is 118 years old

[@b64stuff]

I dont know why I'm here, I guess I'll blameitonjorge.

[@markpippin5437]

This is better than the CGI crap made today and more entertaining.

[@Kidicaruslover]

Mark Pippin Oh you’re THAT person.

[@Satikal]

What are you fucking gay

[@Satikal]

@@stevebrule9343 ya stupid

[@szorstkismuky3887]

@@Satikal whats 9+10

[@Satikal]

@@szorstkismuky3887 21

[@a.n.d1191]

this is fucking gold.

[@ShalemAhava]

Who else is here from Blameitonjorge?

[@kachiggamybigga9481]

rachel evans me

[@brokenbiscuit3609]

Me

[@theotherimmacrazypeanut]

Me.

[@jacksonpriestap3685]

Me

[@frownyfaceemoji9878]

Me

[@SergioPerez-vm8zw]

Wasn't the fire lit when Mr. Beetle's friend scaped through the chimney???

[@ChupeTTe]

The first plothole in cinematic history.

[@meeeka]

It's a beetle! aka a roach. Going through fire was/is easy for them!

[@stephanietienda7978]

I came because of blameitonjorge

[@RubenRodriguez-so2lt]

SAME

[@YeahitsMeSylvia]

Same

[@felixftw4702]

so these two beetles decide the marriage isn't working out then they get mad at each other for dating other people and then they get back together but in jail k

[@user-id5ng6xy6x]

The animation is amazing!!! It reminds me of robot chicken of The 1910s lol.

[@felixftw4702]

5:00 ladies and gentlemen, the first dead bug-directed porn

[@Anonymous-js5zn]

This would've been impressive in the 1940s. Saying this came out in 1912 is like if I said 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in the 1940s.

[@thomasbaron5367]

But it really did come out in 1912

[@anthonycolon2859]

Dead bugs as puppets are really gross

[@RetroSonicfan]

Okay due to the fact that this movie came out in 1912 I'm quite impressed due to the fact that part of this film is color

[@Nolroa]

It was not color, the film was tinted in different shades to differentiate the day from the night or from exterior and interior shots.

[@hazmat4938]

Hopper got so pissed of he tried to enslave an entire ant colony. Unfortunatly for him he died while doing so

[@QuobaltTown]

I think I might make an animated version of this.

[@QuobaltTown]

Okay.

[@ChupeTTe]

@@QuobaltTown where is it

[@gonzalot.605]

In 2-D or 3-D?

[@QuobaltTown]

2D.

[@juanvargas9]

Didn't you just see an animated version of this?

[@Abbimation.]

I never sawed a stop motion short animated using the actual dead insects before. Too bad this was rare since not a lot of people using dead bugs as puppets in modern times in stop motion.

[@peepeepoopoo7182]

Blameitonjorge??

[@kachiggamybigga9481]

The cup Rapmon throws in the Run MV me.

[@davilulemek9179]

This is great

[@simonemancuso3576]

This, in all honesty, is absolutely mindblowing. In a metafictional sense, if could be said that the revenge the cameraman takes is that on death. The director, by bringing dead bugs back to life through the art of cinema, is basically giving the middle finger to the Grim Reaper ahaha

[@ClassicShad0w]

Fact: Those bugs are actually dead. They used strings or something to make them move.

[@nunograve]

You just arruined the magic of that movie... WHYYYYYY

[@woozifer6164]

@@nunograve that makes it more interesting!

[@azrel28deborah]

Can't believe it that the bike are faster than the car. lol!

[@odioalospoopers]

A revenge-powered bike is faster than a car

[@jimruggirello5092]

Brilliant.

[@rdc2021]

This inspired a Bugs life.

[@centauri8570]

Typical beetle life.

[@marshallandjoshuagarcia109]

Creepy,dark and good ☺

[@smolmonster1871]

This cartoon is: Bad 0% Good 99% (Probably) Violent *100%* I am kinda dumb

[@PenelopeStoneVT]

I like to think this takes place in the Hollow Knight world before everything went to hell.

[@hobohubert5388]

So cool!♡♡♡♡

[@redhawkk]

What is my life forgetting

[@jcplays2298]

Gato Galáctico hehe

[@vitorcosta6249]

Tbm hehe :3

[@mysteryman8468]

bro predicted the youtube trash content animation with that name

[@kit-ekat8139]

This really shouldn't be cute. Why TF is this cute.

[@lunaamore2713]

WOW👍😃

[@gyrofritz]

10:18 and is name is besouroooo

[@Jordan-fn7nb]

6:30 note in the lower left corner, it seems that Mrs. Beetle's artist friend also attends the Gay Dragonfly night club...

[@felixftw4702]

9:20 did this bug just crawl into the fireplace

[@felixftw4702]

@Sock monkey cinema 2 it was trying to die?

[@felixftw4702]

@Sock monkey cinema 2 ah

[@caffeine-drivenartist4311]

This is hella cute

[@AnaBeatriz-rb3rv]

vim pelo gato galactico

[@raulpeixoto1361]

Mundo Da Bia eu também

[@tiagoantonio564]

Eu também.

[@epiphaniesjuxtapozed]

so beyond

[@wolfgangallanalhazred802]

Good for him!

[@renroxhrd]

This looks like something from like the 70s-90s not 1912, damn

[@TS-1267]

.... OOOH! 'ERRR MRS... More Tea Vicar... Look Away Ivan... @ 2:39... 🍿🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@camque3353]

No mature content... Dead bugs with there heads wired together:

[@MySpace202]

Still better than the shitty fnaf sfms

[@lizzychrome7630]

Were movie cameras really that easy to carry around and set up in 1912?

[@omarmatouq3855]

I bet jack marston watched this film in the blackwater theater.

[@connerwalker4080]

Who makes something like this with actual bugs

[@derewigemarkgraf]

conner walker Russians obviously

[@onyxsavior7179]

Me. That’s who.

[@amygonzales6333]

And a dead frog

[@kristahill5805]

Who composed the music?

[@LeonRi]

1912?????:O

[@NathanGatten]

Meanwhile across the street Dr. Zhivago was considering cheating on his own wife...

[@daman1999]

This isn’t a soviet movie, the USSR was established a decade after this was made, just wanted to point that out

[@amygonzales6333]

The bugs are dead who thought of this who think is a great idea for a stop motion of dead bugs the legs are so easy to break

[@user-ni6ep3tu6k]

Кто русский? Лайк

[@southarrest]

I hate that this was made on my birthday

[@limpbiskit4lyf95]

i love gay bugs

[@DoodleGoodle]

How did the maker of this animation not break the dead bugs legs?

[@thomasbaron5367]

They used hot wax to mold and shape the bugs joints as they postioned them during filming

[@DoodleGoodle]

@@thomasbaron5367 Ohhh, okay.

[@camilaoliveiradefreitas7716]

gregor samsa

[@ziggyjuarez8544]

his isn't naked lunch

[@rasputinslovechild1]

So the hubby can have a relation with a gay dragonfly, but mom is forbidden from having a boyfriend on the side. Sounds a lot like the Bolshevik revolution to me!

[@meeeka]

It wasnt a year 2000 meaning of "gay." It was a 1912 meaning of gay: happy, FUN!, pretty, seductive, flirty sort of person, usually a girl.