Editing Stop motion (section)

====Helena Smith Dayton====
[[File:Stills from Helena Smith-Dayton films (1917-02 Popular Science Monthly V 90 p. 257).jpg|thumb|[[Film still|Stills]] from ''Battle of the Suds'' and other Helena Smith-Dayton films (1917)]]
New York artist [[Helena Smith Dayton]], possibly the first female animator, had much success with her "Caricatypes" clay statuettes before she began experimenting with clay animation. Some of her first resulting short films were screened on 25 March 1917. She released an adaptation of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' approximately half a year later. Although the films and her technique received much attention of the press, it seems she did not continue making films after she returned to New York from managing a YMCA in Paris around 1918. None of her films have yet surfaced, but the extant magazine articles have provided several stills and approximately 20 poorly printed frames from two film strips.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://journal.animationstudies.org/jason-douglass-artist-author-and-pioneering-motion-picture-animator-the-career-of-helena-smith-dayton-runner-up/|title=Jason Douglass – Artist, Author, and Pioneering Motion Picture Animator: The Career of Helena Smith Dayton (runner-up) – Animation Studies|date=29 December 0201 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>