Stop-motion animation films (Topical Term)

Work cat.: The making of Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009: p. 5 (movie in stop-motion) jkt. (stop-motion picture)

Wikipedia, Jan. 20, 2010: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 stop-motion animated film) stop motion (Stop-motion (also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own; the object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence)

Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993: p. 15 (Object Animation Films; almost any object can be animated using the stop-motion technique; all sorts of objects have been used in animation: matchsticks, tin soldiers, pieces of furniture, skeletons. When using clay, the terms claymation and sculptmation are sometimes used for clay animation)

Singleton, R.S. Filmmaker's dictionary, c2000 (stop-motion animation: Process of creating movement in drawings, wire or mechanically jointed figures or other objects by filming the subject one or more frames at a time, making a small change in the subject's position, then recording another one or more frames and so on. Also called stop-action animation)

Konigsberg, I. The complete film dictionary, c1997 (stop motion, stop-motion cinematography, stop-action, stop-action cinematography, single-frame cinematography)