The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) directed by Ladislas Starevich. . . While making a documentary about insects for the Museum of Natural History in 1909, Ladislas Starevich restaged a fight between two stag beetles using dead bugs, replacing their legs with wires and shooting their movements one frame at a time. This effect proved successful and prompted the production of more stop motion shorts made in a similar style, including 1910's The Beautiful Leukaniada and later 1912's The Cameraman's Reve