stop-frame
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Forbes was captivated by visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen's stop-frame monsters in the movie from 1963, including its army of sinister skeletons that burst up from the ground armed with swords and shields.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2017
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
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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