This piece of animation is an early form of stop motion animation, its creator Wlayslaw Starewicz used real insects in his films as the subjects. There was a history of stop motion animation however before 'The cameraman's revenge', George Melies used stop motion in the title cards of one of his films and Albert E. Smith is said to have created the first ever stop motion film titled 'The Humpty Dumpty Circus' (1898). It can be said that Starwicz created the first stop motion animation using animated puppets. I think people like Starwicz were developing stop motion animation as more of a story-telling medium as apposed to the more experimental stop motion of say somebody like Hans Richter.
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