Stop trick

At the stop trick is a simple, already developed before 1900 film trick. A setting is added, then the camera is stopped. It is now something changed in the image, for example, an object removed or added. Then the recording will continue. When projecting the film ( or the reproduction of the recording ), the two settings appear as a single, but in which an object or appear suddenly disappears. So you can leave suddenly appear or disappear with the help of this trick objects or people. The camera is fixed on a tripod to ensure the congruence of the rest of the image. Nor the light can be changed.

The invention of the stopping tricks and his modification of stop-motion is generally attributed to Georges Méliès. However, the beheading of Queen Mary in Alfred Clark's historical film The Execution of Mary Stuart is recognized in 1895 as the first visual effect. Has been Therein it was, when the executioner the Enthauptungsbeil had the top, the camera stopped, the performer of the executioner keeps this posture to the actress quickly replaced with a doll ( in the jargon " scene hold " ), then ran the camera back, the executioner drops the ax and separates the (puppet ) head off the spectacular tumbles down. ( Raise hatchet, ax above / / ax above, hatchet cases ) by the unnoticeable film section gives the deceptively similar impression that the ax was only for a moment been up and - managed creepy - the actress has just been actually beheaded. This take is at the same time for aspiring filmmakers as the "mother " of all animation techniques mandatory program and worship to this day.

In the American television series I Dream of Jeannie, the trick has been used excessively, always accompanied by a dubbed, spring -like noise to represent Jeannie's magic.

A further development of the stopping tricks is the stop-motion film technique, whole sequences and even entire films can be produced with the.