La Reine des Papillons (1927)
- Original title
- La Reine des papillons
- Directed by
- Ladislas Starevich
- Genre
- silent film, live-action/animated film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 26 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young girl dreams of becoming a butterfly queen. Stop-motion puppet insects and live action come together in this fairy-tale short film.
whimsicaldreamlikefancifuldelicategentleplayfulsurrealnostalgic
What happens
La Reine des Papillons (French for The Queen of the Butterflies) is a 1927 French stop-motion animated short film created by Ladislas Starevich. The film combines live-action sequences starring his daughter Jeanne (aka Nina Star) with puppet animation. Full of special effects, as with Starevich's previous films he used deceased insects as the protagonists of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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- La p'tite Lili (1927)
- Modern Magic (1908)
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