So anthropomorphic mice can do close order drill
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The principles and practicals of this was still being taught at art/photography colleges in the 1980s (the Lenin-era Soviet Union regularly disappeared people from photos in the 1920s, the history goes further back than that). It was far easier with black and white, but still a skilled occupation, involving printing, cutting, assembling (with no raised edges), airbrushing, re-shooting and printing again. There is also the compositing of more than one negative to make images.
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Snopes says that the one above is not a Conard image, but that this one is:
Giant grasshopper images go back even further than this:
(This is from the fascinating wikipedia article on the Rocky Mountain locust, which is now extinct, but 150 years ago occured in swarms containing trillions of insects).
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