Wladyslaw Starewicz(1882-1965)

Behind-the-scenes photographs of him at work on his films show that, unlike most conventional stop-motion filmmakers, his puppets were actually quite large. The figures of the Lion King and Lioness Queen are as tall as Starewicz himself.

[on his attempt to film two stag beetles fighting] I waited days and days to shoot a battle. But they would not fight with the lights shining on them.