seriously this is one of the best animated films I've seen and I never see people talk about it enough apart from saying that it influenced Disney's Robin Hood and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Starewicz pioneered stop-motion animation because he wasn't able to film beetles fighting, so he rigged up some dead beetles and animated them fighting. Then he went on to do all these really wacky dead bug shorts, like Месть кинематографического оператора "The Cameraman's Revenge"