First use of claymation
- Who
- Closed Mondays
- What
- First
- Where
- United States
- When
- 1975
The Oscar winning movie Closed Mondays (USA, 1975) - the directorial debut of Will Vinton (USA) - saw the first use of the Claymation process, in which modelling clay is animated using stop-motion. Vinton patented the process and went to create two decades' of colorful work, including the famous California Raisins and many MTV commercials.