“The Cameraman’s Revenge,” by Ladeslaw Starewicz, 1912.
Stop-motion animation about insect infidelity. Really! Starewicz was actually an entomologist before he started making films.
The first time I saw this ten years ago, I was totally in awe. Hundred-year-old dark humor with exactly the aesthetic I was aching to show in my own super-8 and 16mm movies. It existed!
Kind of makes me want to wind up a Bolex and get cracking again.
