An ant works hard throughout the summer to lay aside enough to last through the winter, while his friend the cicada plays in a band, without a thought for the future. We see the cicada playing at a club filled with other insects, drinking and dancing, while the ant is fending off beetles, and building vast palaces for the colony.

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Is Wladyslaw Starewicz's 1924 stop-motion short, La Cigale et la Fourmi, worth watching today? Short answer: yes, absolutely, but with significant caveats that temper its universal...
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