Annecy Film Festival Celebrates Stop-Motion — and Its New Cultural Center
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), by Winsor McCay, is commonly cited as the first animated film. Yet even before that, filmmakers such as Georges Méliès in 1899 and Segundo de Chomón in 1906 were pioneering another form of animation now known as stop-motion, in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments to create the illusion of life.