08/03/2021
For International Women's Day: Helena Smith Dayton was a claymation pioneer, probably the first to make (short) films in which sculpted characters moved around fluently and acted out a storyline. Her work may have been much more impressive than the few scenes in earlier films that featured some type of (proto-)claymation. Hopefully the quality of her films can sometime be demonstrated, if more material can be found than the few small frames printed in a magazine from 1917. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Smith_Dayton
Helena Smith Dayton (often hyphened as Helena Smith-Dayton) (1883–1960) was an American film maker, painter and sculptor working in New York City who used fledgling stop motion and clay animation techniques in the 1910s and 1920s, one of the earliest animators (and the first American woman) to exp...
