A drunk gardener chases off some children, and then plays cards with imps for his soul in this stop-motion picture by and starring Wladyslaw Starewicz and his little creations (including his daughter, Nina Starr).
It's one of the many unseen movies by Starewicz, an important name in animation whom few people seem to know. He started as an entomologist. He wanted to take movies of insects, but wound up with dead ones, which he animated through stop-motion, and wound up directing more than fifty short movies. His creations were fantastically detailed and humorously ugly. Here, he not only animates demons, but the namesake scarecrow of the movie.
It's one of the many unseen movies by Starewicz, an important name in animation whom few people seem to know. He started as an entomologist. He wanted to take movies of insects, but wound up with dead ones, which he animated through stop-motion, and wound up directing more than fifty short movies. His creations were fantastically detailed and humorously ugly. Here, he not only animates demons, but the namesake scarecrow of the movie.
