claymation

[Wilson Gray]

On 12/6/05, Mullins, Bill <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> 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
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> > >>> Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL 12/06/05 11:40AM >>>
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> > > 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
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> > 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:
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> > > 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?
> >
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Weren't George Pal's Puppetoons also produced by a kind of stop-motion
technology?
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-Wilson Gray