One of the most important people in animation history, Eadweard was the First to discover that multiple images played in sequence would create a moving images, when trying to prove if horses at some point in their gallop don't touch the ground with all of their legs.
J.Stuart Blackton & Albert E.Smith
The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897/1898)
The earliest film to use the stop-motion technique
The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
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George Melies
Magician and Early Pioneer of Stop Motion
The Conjurer (1899)
Stuart Blackton
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
The Haunted Hotel (1907)
The Haunted Hotels Stop motion manipulates static objects into moving objects.
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000553/ |
Segundo de Chomon
El Hotel Eletrico (1907)
This film uses stop animation with people in frame, a lot of patients would have to be had filming the hair coming sequence in which a comb and this ladys hair moves by itself.
Edwin S. Porter
Directed The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Fun in a Bakery Shop (1902)
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000439/ |
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| https://letterboxd.com/film/fun-in-a-bakery-shop/ |
The Cameramans Revenge (1911)
Tale of the Fox (1930)
This fellow was a pioneer of puppet animation. In The Cameramans Revenge he uses dead bugs as his characters, and the characters work, you vcan tell what the emotions are and what they are doing. We has seen this film before, Tis a good film.
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021309/ |
The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)
Pioneer of Clay Animation
The Sculptors Nighmare looks like a progression of a clay bust being built and sculpted. The Busts are of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republican Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zOsxki5C2k |
Romeo Bossetti
The Automatic Moving Company (1912)
More Static objects moving on their own, similar to that of Stuart Blackton and Segundo de Chomons style of work.
Willie Hopkins
Creator of Miracles in mud which was a series that was 54 episodes long.
"We Accuse" (1918)
This short is a clay animation of an octopus being made into a living object, The animation uses fade transitions. It changes into a political message about WW1 with the octopus being Kaiser Wilhelm.
Helena Smith Dayton
First female animator, adapted Williams Shakespeare's play with clay's figures.
Romeo and Juliet (1916)
Willis O'Brien
The Lost World (1925)
King Kong (1933)
King Kong uses a mixture of puppets and real acting. I've seen the Peter Jackson adaptation of King Kong. The PlayStation 2 version of that movie is still my favorite King Kong story adaptation.
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| https://www.moviepostershop.com/the-lost-world-movie-poster-1925 |
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| https://www.amazon.com/KING-Movie-Poster-24x36-inches/dp/B06XJJS5XD |
Autolite (1940)
A promotional film for an automotive parts supplier.
This film would of required a lot of planning and choreography as the camera is now moving around, with more camera angles.
Lou Bunin
Alice in Wonderland (1949)
Has an attempt of a real character and a animated character in the same shot.
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042189/ |
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best mixes of stop animation and real life actors in the same shot. The choreography in this film must of been insane. A Wilhelm screen features in this film.
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| https://www.movieart.com/jason-and-the-argonauts-1963-3301/ |
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| https://www.movieart.com/clash-of-the-titans-1981-8775/ |
Rankin/Bass Productions
Produced a fair bunch of stop-motion holiday films, Including Rudolph the Red-Noses Reindeer, Mad Monster Party and Santa Claus is Comin' to Town.
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