Virginia May
actress, animation_department, director
- Professions:
- actress, animation_department, director
Biography
An unsung heroin and pioneer of the stop-motion art, Virginia May had a career that is fairly undocumented. Known as sculptress, her few surviving films from the 1920's features the frame-by-frame technique by using clay models and other editing tricks such as reverse footage to bring beautiful animation to life. Her most notable work is a battle between a jumping tyrannosaurus rex (which was considered correct by the then current paleontology) and a triceratops in Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past (1923). According to the Film Daily, she worked in a presumably lost series for FitzPatrick's Pictures Inc. known as "American Hollidays" in the late 1920's and early 1930's. In five chapters, she recreated in clay famous paintings depicting historical facts and characters, such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I hope in the future more details about her life surface.
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Directed (2)
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