Sculptress Virginia May is seen making a clay model of a tyrannosaurus rex, which is animated using stop motion, and then fights a stop-motion triceratops. Although Miss May's only known relationship with the movies is this particular short, her contemporary, Willis O'Brien and his student Ray Harryhausen certainly made the field a lively one until computer animation caught up in the 1990s -- and arguably their artistry is still unsurpassed.

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, ...
Mr Plastimime is a funny and moving story about a man who faithfully practices a dying art, a man wh...

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But p...

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take...

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trous...

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and ...

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Pa...

A tribute to stopmotion supremo and special effects genius extraordinaire Ray Harryhausen, the man b...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the re...

Feeling forgotten by the children of the world, old St. Nick decides to skip his gift-giving journey...

Robbie the Reindeer arrives at the North Pole, ready to take his place as navigator on Santa's Chris...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and t...

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explore...