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"The 2025 Academy Awards could shape up to be a big one for stop-motion
animation. Australian director Adam Eliott’s
Memoir of a Snail (2024) has
raked in a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, alongside
Wallace &
Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024).
Coincidentally, this recognition comes in what is already an historic year for
stop motion. A century ago, on February 8 1925,
The Lost World hit cinemas.
This film is widely considered the first feature-length stop-motion production,
as well as the first “creature feature”.
Audiences were captivated as they watched animated dinosaurs share the screen
with live actors. The animators positioned and photographed miniature dinosaurs
made of rubber, one frame at a time, to create moving sequences that
accompanied full-scale shots with human actors.
This method drew from earlier works such as Georges Méliès’s 1902 short film A
Trip to the Moon (
Le voyage dans la lune)."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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