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Stop-Motion Animation

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An animation technique in which puppets, clay figures or other objects are physically repositioned in small increments between individually photographed frames, so that played back in sequence they appear to move on their own. Georges Melies experimented with the same underlying principle around 1899, J. Stuart Blackton's The Haunted Hotel (1907) was the first stop-motion film to receive wide appreciation, and Willis O'Brien went on to pioneer lifelike creature models in films such as The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (1915).

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Animation Craft 1
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1907 1
1907 marks J. Stuart Blackton's The Haunted Hotel, the first stop-motion film to reach wide appreciation; Georges Melies had experimented with the same principle around 1899, and Willis O'Brien pioneered lifelike creature models from 1915.
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Animation 1
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    Stop motion (also known as stop frame animation or object animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
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