Early stop-motion animation – lecture 3 

Arthur melbourne-Cooper  

• He actually had a surviving film- 1899? Not proven 
• Thought fullness of puppet creation

dir. Segundo de Chomón

The electicc hotel (1908)

• Still on cinema of attraction – playing with the medium and showing people think they have never done before 

• The retreat of the artist hand on the screen 
• Contains earliest known version of what we now call pixelation

Pixelation– sparingly used mode of animation often called creepy as is taking something organic and making it more robotic.you have to be very skilled to use and also have willing participants to be still.  

Main case study 

Ladislaw Starewicz – he as multiple versions of his name most common version in america 

There is no gud on how to make a stop-motion puppet or communicate with other artists. So they had to reverse engineer methods. He used dead animal bodies to use as his puppets, mostly insects. He used wire to re-attach legs to the thorax in insects 

 Cinema of attraction is starting to decline 

The cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

• Another way to get color- dipped in die 
• Audience response- probably really rowdy  

re-animating ‘ once living objects 

• All animation is creating the illusion of live 
• Reminds of taxidermy you have to the creature/love to be able to use is 
• Documentary – Lights heating the insects and making them act irrationally and killing some betheed the idea to reuse them.

Jan svankmajer

Alice (1988)

• Owning the weirdness of stop-motion and taxidermy

Stop Motion and Uncanny 

The synthespian uses computer animation to recreate photorealism. Present digital avatar of real people.