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Introduction
Stop motion animation then, and now
The first known stop motion animation film was “The Humpty Dumpty Circus” in 1898. Since then, this medium has seen exponential sophistication in every decade. Our timeline of innovations from inception to present day includes:
| 1910s | the “stop trick” animation technique was perfected |
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| 1920s | the emergence of full length films combining stop motion animation and live actors |
| 1930s | films featured expressive puppet figurines made with wax and wire |
| 1940s | the “replacement animation” technique gained popularity, where puppets had different heads with different expressions, and puppets could perform a much broader range of movements |
| 1950s | the dawn of “claymation”, clay based puppets arrived in stop motion animation films |
| 1960s | the “Dynamation” technique introduced new ways to combine live actors with stop motion models |
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