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Over
100
years
ago
a
pioneer
in
stop motion
animation,
Ladyslaw
Starewicz
(1892-1965),
started
making
the
first
short
movies
with
stop motion
animation
after
his
experiments
with
documentaries
on
insects.
One
of
his
first
movies
the
1912
Khanzhonkov
Company
Moscow
,
produced
"The
Cameraman's
Revenge"
featured
beetles
and
"infidelity"
of
all
things!
Originally
Starewicz
would
use
wire
legs
to
attach
to
the
insects'
bodies.
Later
he
would
use
quiet
intricate
ball
&
socket
armatures
(
well
before
his
time
)
combined
with
leather
and
felt-covered
puppets
in
place
of
the
delicate
"dried"
insect
carcasses.
He
further
extended
his
characters
to
frogs
and
human
like
figures
in
"A
series
of
Animated
Figures
executed
by
the
Russian
Art
Society
of
Paris"
in
1922.
While
these
animations
had
no
live
action
intermingled
in
them
they
set
the
stage
for
Stop
motion
animation
movies
to
come.
In
1925
Willis
O'Brien
(1886-1952)
wowed
audiences
with
his
effects
work
on a
film
adaptation
of
Sir
Arthur
Conan
Doyle's
The
Lost
World
A
precursor
to
this
were
some
of O
Brien's
earlier
stop
motion
animation
works;
notably
"The
Dinosaur
and
the
Missing
Link:
A
Prehistoric
Tragedy"
in
1915.
. O
Brien
used
clay
animation
characters
in
this
movie.
Soon
after
he
began
work
on a
similar
movie
about
people
stranded
on a
deserted
island
full
of
dinosaurs.
This
feature
was
originally
called
"CREATION".
Unfortunately,
studio
executives
lost
interest
and
dropped
the
project
early
on
in
production.
They
however
did
employ
O'
Brien
and
his
special
effects
skills
on a
movie
originally
entitled
"THE
EIGHTH
WONDER".
The
film
was
released
in
April
1933
under
the
title
"KING
KONG"
a
true
classic
for
film
history.
This
was
undoubtedly
one
of
the
first
mainstream
 successful
movies
to incorporate
live
action
and
stop
motion
animation.
"Son
of
Kong"
followed
in
December
1933
to
equal
acclaim.
Edward
Nassour
(1911-1962)
the
animation
supervisor
for
the
1951
movie
"Lost
Continent"
followed
on
now
well
established
genre
of
mixing
live
action
and
stop motion
animation
again
with
the
theme
of
dinosaurs
and
monsters.
Though
the
film
was
not
as
well
received
as
previous
such
movies
it
did
however
keep
the
genre
alive.
In
1953
Ray
Harryhausen
the
famous
animator
animated
the
enduring
monster
from
"The
Beast
from
20,000
Fathoms".
This
movie
can
be
described
as
one
of
the
original
landmark Harryhausen
film..with
its
theme
of
the
atomic
age
monster
movies.
It
spawned
a
whole
eara
of
"certain
Japanese
monsters"
created
by
atomic
experiments
in
early
days
of
the
Atomic
bomb.
1970
saw
the
release
of a
movie
based
on a
book
by
JG
Ballard
called
"When
Dinosaurs
ruled
the
Earth".
Master
animator
Jim
Danforth
created
some
memorable
images
in
this
movie
and
also
later
with
Ray
Harryhausen
in
"The
Clash
of
the
Titans"
in
1981.
The
tradition
of
mixing
stop
motion
animation
with
live
action
continued
in
the
80's
with
the
sci-fi
thriller
"Dreamscape"
(1984).
A
large
snake
man
creature
keeps
chasing
the
lead
character
in
his
nightmares
using
puppetry
but
also
stop
motion
animation.
Nightmare
On
Elm
Street
3:
Dream
Warriors
(1987)
employs
stop
motion
in
one
pivotal
scene
to
great
effect.
However
as
the
millennium
came
and
went
the
genre
of
mixing
live
action
and
stop
motion
animation
in
major
film
releases
gave
way
to
CGI.
There
are
still
however
many
examples
of
live
action
and
stop
motion
animation
used
in
short
movies,
documentaries
and
commercials
such
as
the
Sony
Bravia
Commercial
with
animated
bunnies
running
throughout
New
York.
Or
the
Sony
PSP
commercial
which
featured
objects
in
animation
and
live
action
rather
than
character
or
puppet
animation.
Its
notable
also
that
the
preferred
medium
seems
now
to
move
towards
object
animation
rather
tha n
the
more
time
consuming
character
animation
of
what
is
now
the
last
century.
PSP
-
Stop
Motion
Commercial
References
http://www.dinosaur.org/CelluloidDinosaurs1930.htm
Celluloid
Dinosaurs
-
A
History
of
Dinosaur
Movies
http://www.imdb.com/
-IMDB
Interactive
Movie
Database
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stop-motion_films
A
Full
list
of
Stop
Motion
Animation
Movies
at
Wikipedia.
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