Developing Stop Motion Animation

Willis O'Brien was an American special effects artist for motion pictures, born on March 2nd 1886 in Oakland. During his teenage years he started to make models of dinosaurs and cavemen and with the help of a local newsreel cameraman he animated them. Herman Wobber, a San Francisco exhibitor, saw his short film and in 1915 he helped fund the production of 'The Dinosaur and the Missing Link; A Prehistoric Tragedy'
In 1925 'The Lost World', was released, in this sequence clay models of dinosaurs were added to live action footage used to show the adventure of two explorers finding living dinosaurs in the South of America. This was the first feature length film made in the United States that featured model animation.
He later developed King King in 1933, which told the story of a prehistoric ape named Kong who attempts to possess a young woman and dies in the process. It was a Hollywood hit, its often said to be 'one of the most iconic movies in the history of cinema'.