The Americans looked at stop-motion as a special effects medium such as King Kong (1933) - because King Kong had segments of real life acting and stop-motion integrated as if they were one. Film makers had to adapt their technology and think their way around the technology limitations, for example in modern cinema we have many more options to use CGI , but all they had back then was either live action or stop-motion or ways to adapt both. Modern day stop-motion animation is more mainstream as anyone can do it if they have a smartphone or camera, but in the 1930's it wasn't used as a shortcut or to save on the budget, it was a technique used to convey the film makers idea. Mickey Mouse was a cartoon that also used stop-motion, but it wasn't models, they drew frame by frame by hand to form a cartoon.
Europeans did a different approach, they more used animation as a form to convey stories, opposed to using it in live-action film. They used models instead of cartoons and drawings instead of blending it with live action.
Need examples of eastern european stop motion and videos.
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