Filmmaker Vugar Efendi creates video essays to explore relationships between filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick and Andrej Tarkovsky, to see the ways images from art and sculpture crop up in movies, and to explore thematic elements n the work of director like Terence Malik and Alejandro Innaritu. Now Efendi has shared a montage that takes the viewer through a concise history of stop-motion animation, from silent films through the work of Tim Burton and Henry Selick.
Emphasizes how big a step up Star Wars was, into ESB, although he missed some more earlier examples leading up. Loved the look of the Sinbad movies that followed Jason and the Argonauts.
No clip of “Dragonslayer?” The stop motion techniques invented for Vermithrax (“Go-Motion”) were revolutionary in the genre.