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I guess Ill have to improvise then. Welcome to my video essay
regarding stop motion.
The History of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras
were invented and film production companies started to be established.
Because of the limits of technology, films of the 1890s were under a
minute long and, until 1927, motion pictures were produced without
sound. The first decade of motion picture saw film moving from a
novelty to an established large-scale entertainment industry. The films
became several minutes long consisting of several shots.
The Lumiere brothers were also pioneers of this early film era, were
one of the first filmmakers in history. Their shot in 1895 is
considered the first true motion picture. They worked in the 1800s
and had created their own moving pictures all made up of separate
images, however, the images were grainy and jumpy. They did create a
moving image and one of the first movies in the world to be made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI63PUXnVMw
Now the main developers of these techniques took what these pioneers
had created and shaped it to create entertainment. Willis OBrian
was an American motion picture special effects and stop motion
animation pioneer, and he used what Muybridge had created and
applied it to animate objects. He was, perhaps, responsible for some
of the best known images in cinema history such as The Lost World
and King Kong. He spent his spare time sculpting and illustrating
and his natural talent led to him being employed first as a
draftsman in an architects office and then as a sports cartoonist
for the San Francisco Daily News and was assistant to the head
architect of the 1915 San Francisco Fair , where some of his work
was displayed. During this time he made moveable models, including a
dinosaur and a caveman, which he animated with the assistance of a
local newsreel cameraman. San Francisco exhibitor Herman Wobber saw
this 90 second test footage and commissioned OBrian to make his
first film, The Dinosaur and the Missing Link : A Prehistoric
tragedy; his first real stop motion film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLVt6bMJ8Ds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2PjgxnyyQo
Now lots of media companies out there have developed this technique
and use stop motion even in this day of modern technology to convey
a different and unique style as opposed to CGI animation. They have
taken the techniques from both Lumiere and Muybridge and have
developed their own style. For example, Aardman Animations and
Disney have used stop motion to create some of the most well-known
animations on the planet, such as Chicken Run, Wallace and Grommet,
from Aardman and the Nightmare before Christmas from Disney. These
companies have used several different techniques such as persistence
of vision, stop-frame, frame rates and movement of models.
The themes for stop motion have changed over a long period of time.
The narrative and genres have evolved and developed as pop culture
rose and the world started to take itself less seriously.
A good example of how this has changed would be to compare Chicken
Run, a colourful kids adventure, following the life of battery hens
and their plot to escape their prison, to the very first motion
pictures presented to us by the likes of Lumiere and Muybridge. As
you can see, first of all aside from the fact that Chicken Run is an
The first films never had a character or plot. The Lumieres first
film was of people walking from factories, and doesnt contain any
lively character or tangible plot. Chicken Run has a character, a
goal, an enemy and a risk that could prevent the heroes from
reaching their goal. The first films weve looked through do not
contain any of these qualities because they were simply testing
their equipment and seeing if this kind of motion picture could be
possible to achieve. Narrative has changed over the years to use
this kind of technology to entertain, rather than to amaze, the
genre of the older films would have been educational and
informative, whereas these newer films will be to entertain.