She's a dancer.

她是個舞者。

But this 1912 film is not just a staggeringly weird tale of insect infidelity.

但這部1912年的電影不僅僅是一個令人咋舌的昆蟲不忠的怪異故事。

It's the true kickoff to a stop motion tradition that has given us a ton of wildly different

這是一個停止動作傳統的真正開端，它給我們帶來了一噸的瘋狂的不同

movies.

電影。

But this invention didn't come from Hollywood.

但這個發明並不是來自好萊塢。

It was made by an obsessive insect collector in Lithuania who wanted to see insects dance.

它是由立陶宛一位痴迷於昆蟲收集的人制作的，他想看昆蟲跳舞。

Stop motion is this combination of simplicity and very, very tedious work.

停止運動就是這種簡單和非常非常繁瑣的工作的結合。

“Ah f..”

"啊..."

An animator arranges objects in poses and takes a picture.

動畫師將物體擺成各種姿勢並拍照。

You move the object slightly and take another picture.

你稍微移動物體，再拍一張照片。

Played successively, it looks like motion.”

連續播放，看起來像運動。"

You can tweak the process in a lot of ways - adding more frames - and more precise movements,

你可以用很多方法調整這個過程--增加更多的幀數--和更精確的動作。

will make for a smoother animation.

將使動畫更加流暢。

The potential of this illusion of movement was obvious really quickly, like in 1908's

這種運動幻覺的潛力很快就顯露出來了，比如1908年的...

The Sculptor's Nightmare, where busts briefly moved or A Dream of Toyland, likely from the

雕塑家的噩夢，半身像短暫移動的地方，或者是《玩具樂園之夢》，很可能是來自於。

same year, which made toys come alive.

同年，這讓玩具變得生動起來。

But it took a European collector to elevate it to an artform that changed the movies.

但經過歐洲收藏家的努力，才將其提升為改變電影的藝術形式。

Wladyslaw Starewicz was born in Moscow and bounced around the pre-revolution Russian

Wladyslaw Starewicz出生於莫斯科，在革命前的俄羅斯輾轉。

Empire, ending up in Kaunas - a city in modern day Lithuania, then called Kovno.

帝國，最後在考納斯--今立陶宛的一個城市，當時叫科夫諾。

Some sources say Starewicz was a Natural History museum director there (others say he just

一些消息來源說，Starewicz曾是那裡的自然歷史博物館館長（另一些人說他只是

had a huge insect collection).

有大量的昆蟲收藏）。)

Either way, he had a problem.

無論如何，他都有問題。

As he revealed later, he was commissioned to make educational films “to show the life

正如他後來透露的那樣，他受命拍攝教育片，"展示生活中的

of the stag beetles.”

的雄性甲蟲。"

He “waited days and days to shoot a battle between two beetles, but they would not fight

他 "等了好幾天，拍了兩隻甲蟲的戰鬥，但它們不打了

with the lights shining on them.”

用燈光照耀著他們。"

So he started experimenting with making stationary insects look like they were moving.

於是，他開始嘗試讓靜止的昆蟲看起來像在移動。

He started with that stag beetle, which he called by its scientific name: Lucanus Cervus.

他從那隻雄性甲蟲開始，他把它的學名叫做：Lucanus Cervus。

The goal was to show its fighting behavior, but his next insect movie leapt to fiction

目標是表現它的戰鬥行為，但他的下一部昆蟲電影卻跳到了小說中

to tell the tale of Helen of Troy.

來講述特洛伊的海倫的故事。

In 1912, The Cameraman's Revenge — that insect infidelity movie — became his most

1912年，《攝影師的復仇》--那部昆蟲不忠的電影--成為他最。

influential early work.

有影響力的早期作品。

See how this artist is actually painting another beetle?

你看這位畫家居然在畫另一隻甲蟲？

Or how this grasshopper, filming Mr. Beetle's affair with a dragonfly, look how his tripod

或者這隻螞蚱，拍攝甲殼蟲先生與蜻蜓的戀情，看他的三腳架如何

has individual legs.

有單獨的腿。

These miniscule touches were everywhere.

這些細微的觸動無處不在。

He said he did it by installing wheels and strings in each insect, and occasionally replacing

他說，他的做法是在每隻昆蟲身上安裝輪子和繩子，偶爾更換一下

their legs with plastic or metal ones.

用塑膠或金屬的腿。

He used black threads to help move them.

他用黑線幫助他們移動。

And it worked.

而且它的工作。

After the Russian Revolution, Starewicz fled to Paris.

俄國革命後，斯塔雷維茨逃往巴黎。

He continued making films.

他繼續拍電影。

By the time he made Frogland, he'd changed his name from Wladislaw to Ladislas to make

到了他拍《青蛙國》的時候，他把自己的名字從Wladislaw改成了Ladislas，使他的名字變成了

it easier to pronounce in French.

它更容易用法語發音。

He continued to make incredibly influential art — with stop motion — because “actors

他繼續用定格動作創造出令人難以置信的影響力的藝術--因為 "演員 "是 "演員"。

always want to have their own way.”

總想有自己的方式。"

He had a host of popular films and stop motion quickly influenced popular art and special

他有一系列的流行電影，定格動作迅速影響了流行藝術和特

effects.

效果。

Starevich's stop motion inspired the work that was done in King Kong.

Starevich的定格動作啟發了《金剛》中的工作。

Terry Gilliam — the director and animator behind the surreal Monty Python stop-motion

Terry Gilliam - 超現實的Monty Python定格動畫背後的導演和動畫師。

animations — said Starevich's The Mascot was one of the best animated films of all

卡通片--說斯塔雷維奇的《吉祥物》是最好的卡通片之一。

time.

時候。

And Starevich's masterpiece, Le Roman de Renard clearly inspired Wes Anderson's “The

而Starevich的代表作《Le Roman de Renard》顯然啟發了韋斯-安德森的《》。

Fantastic Mr. Fox.”

神奇的福克斯先生。"

This combination of wild invention and obsessive detail created a new art form.

這種狂野的發明和執著的細節相結合，創造了一種新的藝術形式。

At the end of The Cameraman's Revenge, the grasshopper screens the movie he filmed

在《攝影師的復仇》的結尾，螞蚱放映了自己拍攝的電影。

through a keyhole, the one of Mr. Beetle cheating on his wife.

通過一個鑰匙孔，甲殼蟲先生欺騙他的妻子的一個。

She hits him with an umbrella.

她用雨傘打他。

The movies changed forever.

電影永遠地改變了。

The beetles spent the night in jail.

甲蟲們在監獄裡過了一夜。

That's it for this one in this series about big changes to movies that came from outside

這個系列的電影大變革就到此為止了，關於電影的大變革來自於外界

Hollywood.

好萊塢。

Stop motion's a really global form, so I want to know some of your favorite examples

定格動作是一個非常全球性的形式，所以我想知道一些你最喜歡的例子。

in the comments.

在評論中。

I also want to leave you with a testimony to Starevich's work, which is that in some

我還想為斯塔雷維奇的工作留下一個證明，那就是在某些情況下。

of the early reviews, people were very very impressed with how well he had “trained”

在早期的評論中，人們對他的 "訓練 "印象非常深刻。

his beetles to move around, and I honestly don't know if they were joking.

他的甲殼蟲到處亂跑，說實話，我不知道他們是不是在開玩笑。