The Story of the Fox (Le roman de Renard) (1930)

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"Several of the earliest animated features used the medium of stop-motion puppets. The earliest to do so was Aleksandr Ptushko's Soviet stop-motion/live action hybrid 'The New Gulliver', an amusing early animated film of limited appeal. Germany's 'The Seven Ravens' was also an early stop-motion feature but clearly the first truly great film using this form of animation was Ladislas Starevich's 'The Story of the Fox'. Although it was completed as early as 1930 in terms of animation, 'The Story "

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"Realeased eight months before Walt Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves', Ladislas Starevich's pioneering stop-motion animated film 'The Story of the Fox' was actually completed a good seven years before that. However, problems with funding meant that Starevich struggled to add a suitable soundtrack until funding eventually became available from (whisper it) the Nazi party. This long gestation period doubtless hurt the film's historical reputation and sadly very few people are even aware o"