stop-frame
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
This has a stop-frame effect, suggesting the speeding up of tracts of time, and highlights the subtle exchanges of role by which the watcher becomes the watched, the carer the cared-for.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 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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