Editing Stop motion (section)

====Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon Sr.====
American film pioneer [[Edwin S. Porter]] filmed a single-shot "lightning sculpting" film with a baker molding faces from a patch of dough in ''[[Fun in a Bakery Shop]]'' (1902), considered as foreshadowing of clay animation.

In 1905, Porter showed animated letters and very simple cutout animation of two hands in the [[intertitle]]s in ''[[How Jones Lost His Roll]]''.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=2010-09-17 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wt4V6j1EsI |title=HOW JONES LOST HIS ROLL (1905) |publisher=[[UCLA]] |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2021-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104045632/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wt4V6j1EsI&gl=US&hl=en |archive-date=2019-11-04 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Porter experimented with a small bit of crude stop-motion animation in his trick film ''[[Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (film)|Dream of a Rarebit Fiend]]'' (1906).

''[[The 'Teddy' Bears (1907 film)|The "Teddy" Bears]]'' (2 March 1907), made in collaboration with [[Wallace McCutcheon Sr.]],<ref>{{Citation|title=The 'Teddy' Bears (1907) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140772/reference|access-date=2020-02-20}} {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> mainly shows people in bear costumes, but the short film also features a short stop-motion segment with small teddy bears.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-S-Porter|title=Edwin S. Porter {{!}} American director|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-07-25}}</ref>

On 15 February 1908, Porter released the trick film ''A Sculptor's Welsh Rabbit Dream'' that featured clay molding itself into three complete busts.<ref>{{Citation|title=A Sculptor's Welsh Rabbit Dream (1908) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1864244/reference|access-date=2020-02-20}} {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> No copy of the film has yet been located. It was soon followed by the similar extant film ''The Sculptor's Nightmare'' (6 May 1908) by Wallace McCutcheon Sr.<ref>{{Citation|title=The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000756/reference|access-date=2020-02-20}} {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref>