<P> Stop motion animation has a long history in film . It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic . The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph 's The Humpty Dumpty Circus ( 1897 ) , in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life . In 1902 , the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used the stop trick technique in the `` lightning sculpting '' sequence . French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used stop motion animation once to produce moving title - card letters in one of his short films , and a number of his special effects are based on stop motion photography . In 1907 , The Haunted Hotel is a new stop motion film by J. Stuart Blackton , and was a resounding success when released . Segundo de Chomón ( 1871 -- 1929 ) , from Spain , released El Hotel Eléctrico later that same year , and used similar techniques as the Blackton film . In 1908 , A Sculptor 's Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released , as was The Sculptor 's Nightmare , a film by Billy Bitzer . Italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour - de-force , The Automatic Moving Company in 1912 . The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz ( 1892 -- 1965 ) , who animated The Beautiful Lukanida ( 1910 ) , The Battle of the Stag Beetles ( 1910 ) , The Ant and the Grasshopper ( 1911 ) . </P>
<P> Stop motion animation has a long history in film . It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic . The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph 's The Humpty Dumpty Circus ( 1897 ) , in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life . In 1902 , the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used the stop trick technique in the `` lightning sculpting '' sequence . French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used stop motion animation once to produce moving title - card letters in one of his short films , and a number of his special effects are based on stop motion photography . In 1907 , The Haunted Hotel is a new stop motion film by J. Stuart Blackton , and was a resounding success when released . Segundo de Chomón ( 1871 -- 1929 ) , from Spain , released El Hotel Eléctrico later that same year , and used similar techniques as the Blackton film . In 1908 , A Sculptor 's Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released , as was The Sculptor 's Nightmare , a film by Billy Bitzer . Italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour - de-force , The Automatic Moving Company in 1912 . The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz ( 1892 -- 1965 ) , who animated The Beautiful Lukanida ( 1910 ) , The Battle of the Stag Beetles ( 1910 ) , The Ant and the Grasshopper ( 1911 ) . </P>
when was the first stop motion animation made
when was the first stop motion animation made
1897
1897