To generate an event dedicated to the craft of stop-motion animation, the British Film Institute is teaming up with a studio that never shies away from using the technique. The group in question is none other than Laika Studios. 

The collaboration will bring back the complete catalog of Laika’s films to the big screen and will offer free tickets for those in the crowd aged 16 and under. It will occur from the first of August to the ninth of October. 

The films include Henry Selick’s Coraline, Chris Butler and Sam Fell’s Paranorman, Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable’s Boxtrolls, Travis Knight’s Kubo And The Two Strings, and Chris Butler’s Missing Link. 

Variety reported that as well as the films, there will be displays set up at the Southbank location for the British Film Institute of the props and maquettes that were utilized during the animation process. 

Stop-motion animation dates back to some of the earliest days of cinema, in which it would bring fantastical creatures and scenery to life. One of the earliest examples is 1925’s The Lost World, in which Willis O’Brien brought dinosaurs to life on the big screen. 

Other films that utilize stop motion will play in theaters in the set time, such as King Kong, with effects also done by O’Brien, Jason And The Argonauts, Chicken Run, Corpse Bride, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Anomalisa. 

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