... sets, stopmotion, slow motion and fade-outs/fade-ins to go beyond the limitations of theatre. Melies'screativity and discovery of the fundamental techniques of special effects used today ... cinema's ability to makediscontinuous motion appear continuous, achieved by stopping and then restarting the camera, orsplicing the film, to make impossible transformations seem to occur. They ... KingKong himself was an animated model, brought to life on screen using stop-motion filming. It is avery labor-intensive method. Models have to be moved a fraction of an inch, their facialexpressions...