Product Details

13 Fascinating Examples of Early Stop Motion Animation
Including Town Safety, Dancing Cigarettes, Police
Work, Aluminum Manufacturing, Farm Life and More.

This two DVD stop motion film series has a total run time of 2 hours 25 minutes and includes:

• Live and Let Live (1947) - A demonstration of a wide range of vehicle safety scenarios set on a "tabletop" town using model cars and trucks for the demonstrations.;
• Precisely So (1937) - explores the measurement of very tiny quantities - including a variety of stop motion scenes.;
• Aluminum on the March (1956) - Explores aluminum and its uses in every day life and industry with a variety of stop motion animations demonstrating these uses.;
• Just Imagine (1947) - Animated Tommy Telephone produces a telephone by assembling 433 separate parts.;
• Saint Paul Police Detectives and Their Work (1941) - stop-motion animation film demonstrating the activities of St. Paul Police detectives.;
• Auto-Lite on Parade (1940) - A tour of the Auto-Lite parts factory ending in a stop motion parade of their products.;
• How a Watch Works (1949) - A demonstration of the design and operation of a watch, including a stop-motion animation showing a watch being assembled .;
• Round and Round (1939) - A stop-motion animation showing how a factory is run from an economic viewpoint.;
• The Penwiper (1926) and Green Pastures (1926)- Two mud animations by pioneer San Francisco Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn.;
• When You Are a Pedestrian (1948) - Shows the shared responsibilities of pedestrians and motorists for accident prevention - filmed live and with stop motion demonstrations.; The collection is completed with two Lucky Strike cigarette commercials featuring dancing cigarettes.

Here are some sample clips from the DVD