Thomas Edison wasn't just obsessed with taking people's discoveries and monopolizing them immensely. He created a short film, although not technically stop-motion as we consider it today, this short film demonstrates the simplest ways in which stop motion can be utilized. By splicing the frames in the movie reel, clips can be physically removed from the reel and spliced back together. The same can be done with the individual pictures taken for the stop motion. Although this would make the stop motion much less fluid, the purpose of posting and sharing this video is to further show how stop motion works and how manipulating it can be done with a simple elimination of frames.
I've had one of these since I was 6. Now at age twenty, I still can't figure it out for the life of me. So not only is the rubix cube kept in the same place throughout the frames, but EVERY move, twist and turn is thought through ahead of time and smoothly executed. What in the world.
The weather is deciding to melt everything in sight with its temperature. What better way to celebrate than posting about this incredible spell of genius by the insurmountable Wes Anderson.