Editing Stop motion (section)

====J. Stuart Blackton====
[[J. Stuart Blackton]]'s ''[[The Haunted Hotel]]'' (23 February 1907)<ref>{{Citation|title=The Haunted Hotel (1907) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000553/reference|access-date=2020-02-20}} {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> featured a combination of live-action with practical [[special effect]]s and stop-motion animation of several objects, a puppet and a model of the haunted hotel. It was the first stop-motion film to receive wide scale appreciation. Especially a large close-up view of a table being set by itself baffled viewers; there were no visible wires or other noticeable well-known tricks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Crafton|first=Donald|title=Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898–1928|page=11|year=1993|publisher=University of Chicago Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yaeJFVTedysC|isbn=9780226116679}}</ref> This inspired other filmmakers, including French animator [[Émile Cohl]]<ref name=Cohl>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GBUABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|title=Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film|first=Donald|last=Crafton|date=July 14, 2014|publisher=Princeton University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9781400860715}}</ref> and Segundo de Chomón. De Chomón would release the similar ''[[The House of Ghosts]]'' (''La maison ensorcelée'') and ''[[Hôtel électrique]]'' in 1908, with the latter also containing some very early pixelation.

''[[The Humpty Dumpty Circus]]'' (1908, considered lost) by Blackton and his British-American Vitagraph partner [[Albert E. Smith (producer)|Albert E. Smith]] showed an animated performance of figures from a popular wooden toy set.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb0sep&view=1up&seq=185|title=The Moving picture world. v.3 (1908:July-Dec.).|website=HathiTrust}}</ref> Smith would later claim that this was "the first stop-motion picture in America". The inspiration would have come from seeing how puffs of smoke behaved in the interrupted recordings for a stop trick film they were making. Smith would have suggested to get a patent for the technique, but Blackton thought it wasn't that important.<ref>Albert E. SMith ''Two Reels and a Crank'' (1952)</ref> Smith's recollections are not considered to be very reliable.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-2THyVl7ysC&q=%22two+reels+and+a+crank%22+smith&pg=PA22|title=Film Before Griffith|first=John L.|last=Fell|date=April 10, 1983|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520047587|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCYkCQAAQBAJ&q=%22two+reels+and+a+crank%22+smith+exaggeration&pg=PA208|title=The American Newsreel: A Complete History, 1911-1967, 2d ed.|first=Raymond|last=Fielding|date=May 7, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476607948|via=Google Books}}</ref>