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Lucy got as close as 600 miles from the five-mile-long, two-mile-wide rock, providing new and more accurate measurements of its size, along with striking stop-action footage, with each image in this string taken about two seconds apart.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
The Boston artist projects patterns on boulders or a large boat propeller, using stop-action animation to suggest aquatic currents or glacial movements.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
For roughly two years, Connelly has been on a mission to track down every interesting historical tool, book, clock, photo, pencil sharpener, cotton sample and stop-action motion picture camera still lurking in the thousands of rooms that make up the USDA.
—Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
Ages 6+ The Nightmare Before Christmas Tim Burton's brilliant stop-action Halloween tale is a classic.
—Christin Perry, Parents, 22 Aug. 2023
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
The Boston artist projects patterns on boulders or a large boat propeller, using stop-action animation to suggest aquatic currents or glacial movements.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
For roughly two years, Connelly has been on a mission to track down every interesting historical tool, book, clock, photo, pencil sharpener, cotton sample and stop-action motion picture camera still lurking in the thousands of rooms that make up the USDA.
—Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
Ages 6+ The Nightmare Before Christmas Tim Burton's brilliant stop-action Halloween tale is a classic.
—Christin Perry, Parents, 22 Aug. 2023
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“Stop-action.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop-action. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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