VOLUME XXXIV NO. 1 JUNE - SEPTEMBER 2020
Feature
by Bridgette Macatangay
One of the most successful and thriving industries at present is the entertainment industry, and a big part of this is dedicated to movie productions. Everyone has gone to the cinema to watch the current blockbuster film or tuned in to Netflix to enjoy their favorite show. However, not all have watched and appreciated a timeless art form in movie productions that paved the way for the evolution of modern-day movies – stop-motion films. Stop-motion films are the oldest style of animation in film. They originated and were popularized in Eastern Europe before making their way to the United States. Eadweard Muybridge discovered that by moving characters or puppets in small increments and taking individual photographic frames, connecting each frame one by one would show the subjects in a series of smooth movements. This introduced the concept of the first moving picture technique. The first stop-motion film was The Humpty Dumpty Circus, produced by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith and released in 1898. The jointed limbs of acrobats and animal dolls were used to stimulate the movement of the characters.
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Layout by Josephine Javier
