Stopmotion timeline

  • Humpty Dumpty Circus

    Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton create the Humpty Dumpty Circus, they used small circus dolls with jointed limbs so that they could be kept balanced.
  • Fun in the Bakery Shop

    Fun in a bakery shop is a stop motion animation by Georges Méliès using the stop trick technique in the "lighting sculpting" sequence.
  • The Haunted Hotel

    J. Stuart Blackton created a stop motion film called The Haunted Hotel
  • A Sculptors Welsh Rarebit Nightmare

    A Sculptors Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released
  • The Sculptors Nightmare

    This short film was created by Billy Bitzer
  • El Hotel Eléctric (The Electric Hotel)

    Segundo de Chomón from Spain released this short film using similar techniques to Blackton.
  • The Beautiful Lukanida

    the european animator Wladyslaw Starewicz created this short film.
  • The battle of the stag beetles

    Wladyslaw Starewicz created this short film.
  • The ant and the grasshopper

    Wladyslaw Starewicz created this short film too
  • Automatic Moving Company

    Italian Animator, Roméo Bossetti created this short film.
  • Modelling Extraordinary

    was one of the earliest clay mation short films created.
  • Miracles in Mud

    Willie Hopkins created a series of 54 episodes of Mircales in Mud, and brought it to the big screen.
  • Romeo and Juliet

    In December 1916 the fist woman animator Helena Smith Dayton began experimenting with claymation and released an adaptation of William Shakespears Romeo and Julet in 1917
  • The Lost World

    Willis O' Brien Worked on The Lost World
  • King Kong

    Willis O' Brien also created King Kong this was one of the first films to mix stopmotion and live action
  • Autolite

    a short promotional film was produced for a car company called Autolite in which parts marched to a tune. this used stop motion
  • Mighty Joe Young

    Willis O' Brien's protege Ray Harryhausen made Mighty Joe Young this film mixed live action with stopmotion animation
  • It Came From Beneath the Sea

    Ray Harryhausen then created this in 1955 this film used green screen and stopmotion to give the effect of a large monster
  • Jason and the Argonauts

    Ray Harryhausen also created this and it was a boxoffice hit which mixed stop motion with live action
  • The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

    Ray Harryhausen then went onto working on this, another huge sucess this film used stopmotion on most of its monsters, mixing it with live action too.
  • Morph

    Morph was created by Aardman studios to be a co-host to a tv show Take Hart alongside Tony Hart.
  • Starwars: The Empire Strikes Back

    In starwars: the empire strikes back, Lucusfilm created special effects for ATAT, Tauntauns, and a chess battle using Stop Motion. They had trapdoors under the sets where people could re-position the characters.
  • Clash Of The Titans

    Ray Harryhausen then went onto create this smash hit film wich mixed stop motion with live action
  • Return of the Jedi

    The AT-STs in star wars were animated using Stopmotion by Lucasfilms
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Henry Selick and Tim Burton created this and it became a huge box office success.
  • James and the Giant Peach

    This was made by Henry Selick and was another huge box office success
  • Corpse Bride

    Corpse bride was a musical animation created by Tim Burton
  • Wallace and Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    Nick Park and aardman studios created this and it was a huge box office success
  • Coraline

    Henry Selick created this based on a book
  • Frankenweenie

    another stopmotion animation created by Tim Burton based on a short story of his