claymation

[Mullins, Bill]

The type of stop motion animation that was used in the Sinbad movies (by
Ray Harryhausen) was called Dynamation.

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> Was there a name for that process that was in popular
> parlance?  I don't remember saying 'stop motion' at all.  I
> remember something, but not exactly what it was.
> Fritz
>
> >>> Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL 12/06/05 11:40AM >>>
> >
> > What were the Rudolph and Little Drummer Boy movies from
> the 1960s?
> > Were they the same thing as claymation? IF so, what were
> they called
> > tehn? I remember having some sort of descriptive term for them, but
> > don't really remember whether it was 'claymation.'  WHen I started
> > hearing that term, it just seemed so familiar.
> > Fritz
>
> Claymation is a particular kind of "stop motion" animation.
> Rudolph (like King Kong 1933) used models built around
> articulated metal armatures.  Rudolph and the Little Drummer
> Boy were from Rankin Bass studios, which did a lot of stop
> motion stuff (Mad, Mad Monster Party, among others).
>
> The original Gumby and Pokey used a similar process to
> claymation, but didn't call it that.  The producer of Gumby,
> Art Clokey, also did the Davey and Goliath.
>
> Wallace & Gromit are my current favorite claymation films.
>
> > Proquest has it from 1979, the year that the trademark was first
> > filed:
> >
> > http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=73218588
> >
> > The trademark was registered to Will Vinton Studios, which
> created the
> > California Raisins commercials.
>
> > Ben Zimmer
>
> The trademark page show its "First Use in Commerce" from 1978.
>
> The ProQuest cite:
> "Saturday Evening" Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File); Apr
> 24, 1979; pg. G11 "Academy Award winners "Special Delivery"
> and "Claymation" will be among the short subjects shown."
>
> Note:  I cannot find any record of an Academy Award winning
> short called "Claymation".  Any ideas what they are talking about?
>