SCFZ poll: Wladyslaw Starewicz

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Polling the films of Wladyslaw Starewicz

The rules:

- your list can include no more than half of the Starewicz films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can list the maximum of five.

- i'll assume ballots are ranked unless you tell me otherwise. unranked ballots are fine.

- deadline for ballots: next Friday, in seven days, whatever day that is

umbugbene created an index on letterboxd of all of our previous polls here: letterboxd.com/umbugbene/list/index-of-all-scfz-director-polls/

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might as well use extended rules:

- if you've seen an odd #, you can round up instead of down when deciding the length of your ballot (e.g. if you've seen 7, you can vote for 4 instead of the usual 3)
- if you've seen more than 10, you can vote for more than 5, subject to the restriction above

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The Cameraman's Revenge
Le Roman de Renard
The Dragonfly and the Ant
La Voix du Rossignol

seen eight

[wba]

Love that guy!!!

01. The Lily of Belgium (1915)
02. The Tale of the Fox (silent version)
03. The Town Rat and the Country Rat (1927)
04. The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
05. Fétiche en voyage de noces (1936)
06. Love in Black and White (1923)

Starewicz seen: 11

[oscarwerner]

Seen 11. Great lithuanian master of animation. He mainly spoke polish. He lived in my native Kaunas city. Later went to work in Russia, France..
He was forgotten a bit. Now many researches done about him. Lithuanian movie was created about him:
The Bug Trainer-2008. Available in many languages.
My votes:
The Story of the Fox- silent version(~1930)
The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
The Four Devils (1913)
The Dragonfly and the Ant (1913)
The Frogs Who Wanted a King(1922)

[brian d]

seen 5

the mascot
the nightingale's voice
the cameraman's revenge

[john ryan]

seen 2

1. The Mascot

[deepbluefunk]

seen 13

1. Cameraman's Revenge
2. Fetiche [The Mascot]
3. Le Lion Devenu Vieux [The Old Lion]
4. The Town Rat and the Country Rat
5. The Insect' Christmas

[wba]

seen 13

1. Cameraman's Revenge
2. Fetiche [The Mascot]
3. Le Lion Devenu Vieux [The Old Lion]
4. The Town Rat and the Country Rat
5. The Insect' Christmas

You can vote for 7, if you like!

[rischka]

tale of the fox
the mascot
the ones with the bugs

[wba]

the ones with the bugs

I'd guess that's about 70% of his filmography.

[St. Gloede]

Seen 6:

Le roman de Renard / The Story of the Fox (1930-1937)
The Magical Clock, or The Little Girl Who Wanted to Be a Princess (1928)
Mest kinematograficheskogo operator / The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

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the ones with the bugs

i'm not sure how to count this vote i've tallied the votes, and this one vote might kind of matter - i could give it to the insects' christmas, or to the cameraman's revenge, or to the dragonfly and the ant or to something else (or to more than one film if you've seen enough to vote for more than 3)

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Not a very exciting list from me, only seen the most well known ones I guess, but at least I can slide votes towards the Nightingale and the Rats from my six flicks.

The Insects Christmas
The Nightingale's Voice
The Town Rat and the Country Rat

[rischka]

the ones with the bugs

i'm not sure how to count this vote i've tallied the votes, and this one vote might kind of matter - i could give it to the insects' christmas, or to the cameraman's revenge, or to the dragonfly and the ant or to something else (or to more than one film if you've seen enough to vote for more than 3)

One for insects Christmas one for Cameramans revenge

I know I've seen those two

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ok thanks! i'm not sure if those were in order, or if they're meant to be tied, but it turns out not to really matter in the results anyway

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i'm always impressed when we poll someone like starewicz, who is obviously familiar enough to people who know the silent era well or who know animation history, but who probably isn't familiar to a lot of more casual film folk, and end up with votes for 14 different films. his films that i had thought, before the poll, were his best-known ended up taking the top two spots:

results

1. The Story of the Fox (1930) — 19 pts
2. The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) — 18.5 pts
3. The Mascot (1934) — 11 pts
4. The Town Rat and the Country Rat (1927) — 6 pts
5. The Insects’ Christmas (1913) — 5.5 pts
6. The Lily of Belgium (1915) — 5 pts
6. La Voix du Rossignol (1925) — 5 pts
8. The Dragonfly and the Ant (1913) — 4 pts
9. The Four Devils (1913) — 3 pts
9. The Old Lion (1932) — 3 pts
11. The Little Girl Who Wanted to be a Princess (1928) — 2 pts
12. Fetiche en Voyage de Noces (1936) — 1 pt
12. The Frogs Who Wanted a King (1922) — 1 pt
14. Love in Black and White (1928) — 0.5 pts

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i posted this to letterboxd. it doesn't seem that the four devils (1913) is on letterboxd, so i couldn't include it in the list, but if anyone adds it to the tmdb/letterboxd database, let me know and i'll edit:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-283/

[wba]

i posted this to letterboxd. it doesn't seem that the four devils (1913) is on letterboxd, so i couldn't include it in the list, but if anyone adds it to the tmdb/letterboxd database, let me know and i'll edit:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-283/

A lot of Starewicz is missing from TMDB...