A little girl falls asleep. Her toy puppy awakes and creates a circus for her amusement under an umbrella. When the toy lion grows enormous, can he tame it?
It's Wladyslaw Starewicz at his charming, fantastic best, using his stop-motion animation techniques to tell a child-like dream story, in which toy monkeys climb upside down on strings to become acrobats, and toy horses race around the ring.
Starewicz started as an entomologist who wanted to make movies of his subjects; for various reasons, he found it best to use stop-motion to animate them, and his career as one of the major animation talents began. He's unfortunately largely forgotten, but worth pursuing for any movie-lover.
It's Wladyslaw Starewicz at his charming, fantastic best, using his stop-motion animation techniques to tell a child-like dream story, in which toy monkeys climb upside down on strings to become acrobats, and toy horses race around the ring.
Starewicz started as an entomologist who wanted to make movies of his subjects; for various reasons, he found it best to use stop-motion to animate them, and his career as one of the major animation talents began. He's unfortunately largely forgotten, but worth pursuing for any movie-lover.
