Famous movies in stop-action animation:

"A Trip to the Moon" (1902): Georges Méliès fires a rocket into the eye of the moon.

"King Kong" (1933): New York City is attacked by an enormous ape. Really a claymation style puppet (about 18" tall)

"Jason and the Argonauts" (1963): Live-action film with effects by Ray Harryhausen.

"Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back" (1980): George Lucas relied on stop-action to create the Imperial Walkers.

"Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993): Eerily beautiful stop-action feature.

"Chicken Run" (2000) Clay-based stop action by Nick Park, creator of "Wallace & Gromit."

"Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" (2005): Based on a Russian folktale about a man who inadvertently ends up wed to a corpse.

Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Wallace and Gromit investigate a vegetable-eating mystery.

Chris Rowe crowe@aip.org
American Institute of Physics
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