Did you realize that Emile Cohl, a French cartoonist, first brought the stop motion technique to America? Or that filmmaker Willis O’Brien used stop motion for the special effects in Lost World in 1925 and King Kong in 1933? Learn more about the history of stop motion film in Chloe Fleury’s entertaining paper animation after the jump.
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