for animation buff it a must and but even general audience will enjoy the cameraman revenge and a very early example of pixilation by the hard work pioneer wladyslaw starewicz . starewicz and his helper painstakingly manipulate a cast of flexible insect figure to tell this story and pave the way for the like of willis obrien and george pal and ray harryhausen and and legion of modern digital effect creator . the cameraman revenge be only about 10 minute long and but pack in lot of amuse detail a the story follow the amorous adventure of two beetle from their home to a nightclub and a hotel and a cinema and and and eventually and a prison cell . there be two brief dance number at the nightclub ( perform by a frog and a dragonfly ) and a scuffle between a beetle and a grasshopper and and a large scale donnybrook at the cinema and which end with the projector burst into flame . pretty elaborate going on for 1912 and when even john bray and winsor maccay be just get start and and walt disney be still in grade school . it interest to note and too and what an impact the alteration of a silent movie title card can have on the story be tell . i have see two version of this film offer by two video company and and watch them back to back and and although the image content itself be almost identical and two different set of intertitles tell two very different story . ( and the plot outline someone provide above tell yet a third story and which suggest that there another version out there somewhere . ) the british film institute print and which have rhyming intertitles and tell the story of two sibling beetle and each secretly marry and who hide this information from one another in order to inherit their late father fortune . the other and russian print and tell a simple story of married beetle who be each guilty of infidelity . in the russian version mr. beetle visit his girlfriend at the gay dragonfly nightclub and while in the english version brother bill beetle visit his wife at the music hall . personally and i prefer the straightforward and spicy russian story while the bfi version try to cram too much plot into what should be a simple tale and and some of the rhyme be a bit awkward . still and in any rendition and the cameraman revenge be a delightful film and and would make an ideal lead in to that other great animate work which feature beetle and yellow submarine .