The Mascot is a circa 1933-1934 short film featuring stop-motion puppet animation. It was written and directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz, a Russian-Lithuanian-Polish-French filmmaker whose name has several different spellings. It's a mostly silent film (not counting the musical score) and stars a stuffed dog that goes on a perilous journey to bring an orange to sick child. The dog ventures onto the street and even goes to the nighttime Devil's Ball; meanwhile, the canine protagonist encounters human-like toys, some of them are made out of random materials such as utensils, as well as infernal vegetables.
OK, it's a weird film.
The animation is really interesting. According to his granddaughter, Starewicz made the faces of the puppets by sticking wet chamois-leather on their wooden structure and changed the puppets' expressions by modifying parts of the faces frame-by-frame with dentist's tongs. Someone who posted a copy of the film online mentioned that Starewicz created a blurring effect for fast movement by moving the puppets during the actual exposure. Anyway, here is the movie:
and Cameraman's Revenge (1912).
I agree with Terry Gilliam, who listed The Mascot as one of the ten best animated films of all time, that Starewicz' surreal, imaginative work was a predecessor to subsequent films by Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay. So I'll use that as an excuse to link to Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer's Ossuary.