Editing Stop motion (section)

====Alexander Shiryaev====
As a means to plan his performances, ballet dancer and choreographer [[Alexander Shiryaev]] started making approximately 20- to 25-centimeter-tall puppets out of [[papier-mâché]] on poseable wire frames. He then sketched all the sequential movements on paper. When he arranged these vertically on a long strip, it was possible to give a presentation of the complete dance with a home cinema projector. Later on, he bought a movie camera and between 1906 and 1909 he made many short films, including puppet animations. As a dancer and choreographer, Shiryaev had a special talent to create motion in his animated films. According to animator [[Peter Lord]] his work was decades ahead of its time. Part of Shiryaev's animation work is featured in Viktor Bocharov's documentary ''Alexander Shiryaev: A Belated Premiere'' (2003).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lord|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Lord|date=2008-11-14|title=Peter Lord on Alexander Shiryaev, animation's great lost pioneer|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/14/animation-ballet|access-date=2020-07-26|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>Viktor Bocharov, ''Alexander Shiryaev: Belated Premiere'' (2003) documentary</ref>