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stop-frame

British  

adjective

  1. films of or relating to animated films involving models, puppets, etc, in which each frame is photographed individually

    stop-frame photography

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But the short that really affected him in Saturday's program was George Pal's 1947 Puppetoon classic "Tubby the Tuba," a gentle stop-frame animated film with music about a sensitive tuba in an orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2014

About 90 miles north of Manhattan is a 76-acre triangle of land on the Hudson River whose owners over the centuries have acted out the history, in stop-frame animation, of social power in New York.

From New York Times May 27, 2014

"We plan to shoot the episodes using clay and traditional stop-frame animation, in Morph's original home at Aardman studios in Bristol," said Lord.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2013

He attended Los Angeles City College and continued his experiments with a new stop-frame 16mm camera.

From The Guardian May 7, 2013

It's as though you were looking at an explosion in progress, a stop-frame, magical view of arrested violence that is, at the same time, a collage containing every kind of superimposition and overlay.

From Time Magazine Archive

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