🐞 Oh look, another gripping tale of #infidelity and insect nightlife from 1912! Who knew our great-great-grandparents were so entertained by melodramatic stag beetles cheating on their spouses with dragonflies? 🐜 Clearly, the pressing issue of the day was not world peace, but which arthropod would win the heart of a leggy #Odonata. 🎥
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cameramans-revenge/ #insectnightlife #melodrama #stagbeetles #HackerNews #ngated
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: *The Cameraman’s Revenge* (1912)

Perhaps the first work of puppet animation, featuring a cast composed of dead bugs.

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