stop-motion

animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own
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stop-motion

Summary

stop-motion is an animation technique[1]. stop-motion ranks in the top 7% of animation_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (626 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • stop-motion is credited with the discovery of Aleksandr Shiryaev[3].
  • stop-motion's image is recorded as Moving Penny.gif[4].
  • stop-motion's instance of is recorded as animation technique[5].
  • stop-motion's instance of is recorded as form of art[6].
  • stop-motion's subclass of is recorded as animation[7].
  • stop-motion's has use is recorded as stop-motion animated film[8].
  • stop-motion's Commons category is recorded as Stop motion[9].
  • stop-motion's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1895-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • stop-motion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06qln[11].
  • stop-motion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Stop motion[12].
  • stop-motion's product or material produced is recorded as stop-motion animated film[13].
  • stop-motion's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/stop-motion-animation[14].
  • stop-motion's different from is recorded as Supermarionation[15].
  • stop-motion's Quora topic ID is recorded as Stop-Motion-Animation[16].
  • stop-motion's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19637527[17].
  • stop-motion's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as stop-motion-animation[18].
  • stop-motion's subreddit is recorded as stopmotion[19].
  • stop-motion's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/StopMotion[20].
  • stop-motion's National Library of Poland MMS ID is recorded as 9810557260605606[21].
  • stop-motion's Lex ID is recorded as stop_motion[22].
  • stop-motion's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as stop-motion-photography[23].
  • stop-motion's IMDb keyword is recorded as stop-motion[24].
  • stop-motion's WikiKids ID is recorded as Stop-motion[25].
  • stop-motion's GitLab topic ID is recorded as stop-motion[26].
  • stop-motion's Know Your Meme slug is recorded as stop-motion[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

stop-motion is credited with the discovery of Aleksandr Shiryaev[3].

Why It Matters

stop-motion ranks in the top 7% of animation_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (626 views/month).[2] stop-motion has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] stop-motion is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Know Your Meme. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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