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We had the animated thread,and it was stated we could post stop motion animation films,yet only MAD MONSTER PARTY (1967) was listed! Methinks,perhaps,it was overlooked-certainly by myself.
Ok-so can we list 100 stop motion films? Are there 100?

Here's an oldie-by the Father of Kong himself,Willis O'Brien. Obie was hired by none other than Thomas Edison to make this for his Edison Company.
the DINOSAUR AND THE MISSING LINK (1915)

http://youtu.be/RClif87GM1A (http://youtu.be/RClif87GM1A)

Ok RC, good topic BTW.

2. Jason and the Argonauts. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg1v5HkpdEA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg1v5HkpdEA)

Harryhausen's 1st film to receive top billing.  Epic in scope, but lacks a real ending. The skeleton-fight scene is considered a landmark moment in FX. 

When post youtube links be sure to take out the "s" in "https" so you get this

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg1v5HkpdEA#)

instead of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg1v5HkpdEA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg1v5HkpdEA)

3. Mary and Max:

http://youtu.be/eVdivjF-9nw (http://youtu.be/eVdivjF-9nw)

4 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Rudolph_-_1964_ad.JPG)

Since I was late getting to the 100 annimated films (which is missing a few I would have suggested) better get in on the 100 Stop motion films.  So...

5.  King Kong (1933)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnaCi4rBfqw#)

6.)  Paranorman
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgwSpajMw3s#)

7. Kubo and the two strings
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-6qJzeb3A#)
Admitting I haven't seen this one yet, but everyone I've talked to says its great.

8. Beast from 20000 Fathoms
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9HxCkBYum8#)

9) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

http://youtu.be/ZMFdVEQcH_0 (http://youtu.be/ZMFdVEQcH_0)

10) 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

http://youtu.be/8MWmCskZwM0 (http://youtu.be/8MWmCskZwM0)

11) One Million Years B.C. (1966)

http://youtu.be/gSYmJur0Npw (http://youtu.be/gSYmJur0Npw)

12) The Black Scorpion (1957)

http://youtu.be/5Sr0Y3mUZpM (http://youtu.be/5Sr0Y3mUZpM)

I was fixing to post the 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD,Jase,then I saw your entry!
When I was a little kid,this old Puppetoon usta play on uhf channels quite often. Made by George Pal,the maestro behind WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) and the TIME MACHINE (1960).

13. JOHN HENRY (1946)

http://youtu.be/AAqkNuAjNCo?list=PLYR (http://youtu.be/AAqkNuAjNCo?list=PLYR)

14) Mysterious Island (1961)

http://youtu.be/zZXIZKqm1pE (http://youtu.be/zZXIZKqm1pE)

15)  When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)

http://youtu.be/lHaClZaXoJk (http://youtu.be/lHaClZaXoJk)

16) Equinox (1970)

http://youtu.be/jwuQBSApblI (http://youtu.be/jwuQBSApblI)

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS was another stop motion animation on the animated films list... and it was ONLY the first entry on page 2...  :twirl:

I always thought that was computer-animated-it's hard to tell sometimes nowadays!

14. Q:THE WINGED SERPENT  (1982)has an all star-B movie cast,including Richard Roundtree,Micheal Moriarty,Candy Clark,and the always great David Carradine. The final battle with Q dive bombing the the Chyrsler Building,while being machine gunned by folks therin is kind of a Kong reversal. Great movie!

the F/X were done by Dave Allen,who,among other things, worked on Gumby and Davy and Goliath shorts!

http://youtu.be/9bjsag2vYlQ (http://youtu.be/9bjsag2vYlQ)

18. First Men in the Moon (1964)

http://youtu.be/CMw6O6r_JxE (http://youtu.be/CMw6O6r_JxE)

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse Of The Were Rabbit.

20. Prehistoric Beast, Phil Tippet's proof-of-concept short and one of my all-time favorite pieces of animation!

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlaXIRTjNfo#)

21. Valley of Gwangi (1969)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyl4MUYHvrk#)

I think the numbering's already off and I don't know if NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS got added to the list or not (it should be).

21?. ANOMALISA

http://youtu.be/WQkHA3fHk_0 (http://youtu.be/WQkHA3fHk_0)

Agree that Nightmare Before Christmas should be added. I think we're at 23 now as Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit was added...

23) Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)

http://youtu.be/nxVxtvJWoqs (http://youtu.be/nxVxtvJWoqs)

Does EQUINOX (1970) count?   :question:

http://youtu.be/tctHCMAi8jw (http://youtu.be/tctHCMAi8jw)

24. Frankenweenie

25. The Fantastic Mr Fox

27. Chicken Run

Equinox, Kuba, and ParaNorman are already on the list...

so I think this is actually...27...

27) The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)

http://youtu.be/YSgyoeqdMpo (http://youtu.be/YSgyoeqdMpo)

28) Jurassic Park Test Footage & Animacs:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dGpd69_x5M#)

Gives you an idea of what the film would've looked like w/ traditional FX.  Not bad.

29.the LOST WORLD (1925)

the first full length stop motion feature-by Kong's creator Willis O'Brien. This film set the tone for decades.

http://youtu.be/D6Kt-dT0N4w (http://youtu.be/D6Kt-dT0N4w)

30. It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)

http://youtu.be/0nmOjIUR9kA (http://youtu.be/0nmOjIUR9kA)

31. The Great Rupert

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042524/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042524/)

One of George Pal's first features. 

32. Clash of the Titans (1981)

http://youtu.be/hBB5L8t-0Co (http://youtu.be/hBB5L8t-0Co)

 33. The unjustly obscure PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1977) has a threadbare plot, no name actors,and director James K. Shea's only effort. It also has tons of action and fantastic animation by Doug Beswick,who worked on,among others,FLESH GORDON,the EMPIRE STRIKES BACK,ALIENS,TERMINATOR,EVIL DEAD II,and BEETLEJUICE!

http://youtu.be/S2DqiQtWuDA (http://youtu.be/S2DqiQtWuDA)

 :question:  

 :bluesad:  Why wouldn't anyone ignore this forum?  

It was listed on the first page. It's #16!
I agree about NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS-so it's #34!
I dunno if this is gonna make 100. Ah well-gotta try

#35. JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME (1955)-a charming little fantasy film...where all the dinosaurs aren't rampaging monsters. But it would be kinda neat to see this Bronto snatch up one of these youngsters like the one in
 KING KONG and and chew him into gristle! But that's just me-hehehe! :twirl:

http://youtu.be/TS6ns2q4ncE (http://youtu.be/TS6ns2q4ncE)

Thanks for clarifying.  I somehow missed that. 

36. FLESH GORDON 

http://youtu.be/rNuk_boPD8Q (http://youtu.be/rNuk_boPD8Q)

 :lookingup: 

37. Mighty Joe Young (1949)

http://youtu.be/lomsPBt60Ks (http://youtu.be/lomsPBt60Ks)

I was wondering when Joe would come up. One of the BEST heartfelt films-of ANY gene\re.

38.-Land of the Lost TV show-the teenage kid went on to star in the f**ked up horror Classic the TOOLBOX MURDERS (1977)

http://youtu.be/o4FEC6I29ww (http://youtu.be/o4FEC6I29ww)

Newt me dear-Gwangi was 21.  It's a Willis O'Brien wnated to make it-but he died.Thats very much the reason Harryhausen did this-in honor of his mentor.Amazing film!Its getting harder to find stop motion films-I dont know if we can hit 100.This is gonna be tough! I have lots more in my brain-but I like to drag s**t out.
39. the GHOST OF SLUMBER MOUNTAIN (1919)



http://youtu.be/WaOmqE3eLqk (http://youtu.be/WaOmqE3eLqk)

Oops!  Knew I must have missed it - I did look!   :lookingup:

How much stop motion does a film need to be considered a stop motion film?  It was a pretty common FX technique til CG overran everything.  Even It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World had a short stop motion segment, to show a fire engine ladder go crazy, I believe.

I'm not counting It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World yet, but I will count:

40) Empire Strike Back

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-002&hsimp=yhs-002&hspart=mozilla&p=star+wars+walker+scene+youtube+empire#id=1&vid=a652f8312397e21b0f8c2f20249e0743&action=click (https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-002&hsimp=yhs-002&hspart=mozilla&p=star+wars+walker+scene+youtube+empire#id=1&vid=a652f8312397e21b0f8c2f20249e0743&action=click)

Can we add the Christmas Holiday Rankin Bass stuff because there's a few of those worth mentioning (think Rudolph was already added)? Actually if you research stop-motion in films, I think a 100 is possible (I mean there's stop motion in some films some don't realize like Robocop films and Ghostbusters, etc. and there's quite a few full stop-motion animated too).

In the meantime:

41) James and the Giant Peach (1996)

http://youtu.be/73ax6ZrcUx4 (http://youtu.be/73ax6ZrcUx4)

RC already listed a TV show, Land of the Lost, so Rankin Bass' specials should be fine.

42) RoboCop 2

http://youtu.be/Yxumzn82V9s (http://youtu.be/Yxumzn82V9s)

JaseSF mentioned the old Videocraft specials, but didn't post any. To get this going again let's try:

43) Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer: Already Listed, Sorry.

https://www.amazon.com/Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer-Trailer/dp/B00HET0ILG (https://www.amazon.com/Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer-Trailer/dp/B00HET0ILG)

43) Rudolph's Shiny New Year: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-002&hsimp=yhs-002&hspart=mozilla&p=rudolph%27s+shiny+new+year#id=4&vid=3ef7519573edc2b15c9cae1b44db0272&action=click (https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-002&hsimp=yhs-002&hspart=mozilla&p=rudolph%27s+shiny+new+year#id=4&vid=3ef7519573edc2b15c9cae1b44db0272&action=click)

44. Winterbeast :bouncegiggle:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyO73C2aZqw#)

45) The Day Time Ended

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/timeended/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/timeended/)

Not the first I'd think of , but it has it's fair share of stop-mo FX, including a very smoothy animated dinosaur/alien/monster battle. (I can't tell what those creatures are supposed to be.  They're well detailed & animated tho.)

46.JACK THE GIANT KILLER (1962)-Kerwin Mathews plays Jason-oops-I mean Jack,and Torin Thatcher plays-Sokurah-doo!-Pendragon!
Yeah-its a 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1957) rip-off-with cheaper F/X and a 2-eyed Cyclops (?).

http://youtu.be/7T6hVrfwCpY (http://youtu.be/7T6hVrfwCpY)

47) Laserblast http://www.badmovies.org/movies/laserblast/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/laserblast/)
48) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grim
49) Santa Clause is Coming to Town

Now who has number 50?

No one else? Pity.

50) The Return of Captain Sinbad (1993)

http://www.xmoppet.org/movie/captsinbad.htm (http://www.xmoppet.org/movie/captsinbad.htm)

ColdFusion used to have a review, but that site's long gone. Here's another review: http://www.vortex42studios.com/sma/index.php?archive=forum&topic=5&subtopic=28&message=3096 (http://www.vortex42studios.com/sma/index.php?archive=forum&topic=5&subtopic=28&message=3096)

51) Here Comes Peter Cottontail. (1971)

Come on! We're more than halfway there!  :smile:

52) Le Roman de Renard aka The Tale of the Fox
(1937)
Based on a series of stories about Middle Age society, with animal characters. Reynard, the main character, is a fox and a trickster.

http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/reynard-the-fox-in-animation/ (http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/reynard-the-fox-in-animation/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Fox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Fox)

Let's try to complete this without going to Wikipedia again...

Was the Beast of Hollow Mountain listed yet? How about The Black Scorpion? Didn't that have some stop motion?

I don't think The Time Machine (60's) has been listed yet either. There was some good stop motion in the time traveling segments.

Black Scorpion's listed, so...

53) The Beast of Hollow Mountain

54) The Time Machine

55) Gumby: The Movie

56) The Animal World (Has a segment of stop-mo dinosaurs animated by Willis O'brian and Ray Harryhausen. For some reason whenever Irwin Allen needed cheap dinosaur footage he'd always take the monitor lizard/alligator battle from The Lost World. Why he didn't re-use this is anyone's guess.)

I dont know if these have been mentioned yet:
56. The Terminator ( the endoskeleton rising from the wreckage and walking.)
57. Kubo ( visually amazing!)
58. The golden child ( the dancing soda can)
59. Claymation comedy of horrors ( a personal favorite and very special to me)
60. Howard the duck ( the lord of darkness monster thingy)
61. Beetljuice ( sandworms)
62. Stanely and the dinosaurs.

Kubo was #7.  I don't remember any of the others, so:

56. The Terminator ( the endoskeleton rising from the wreckage and walking.)
57. The golden child ( the dancing soda can)
58. Claymation comedy of horrors ( a personal favorite and very special to me)
59. Howard the duck ( the lord of darkness monster thingy)
60. Beetljuice ( sandworms)
61. Stanely and the dinosaurs.

62) Robot Wars - Not the cool British show where real people build real robots which really fight each other, the lame mid-90's Charles Band DTV feature.  Cool Stop-mo robots, including a giant scorpion and a humanoid, but a plot that about as well thought out as Michael Bay's Transformers. Luckily it's a short feature, and I just bought it for the FX anyway.

Cool Stop Motion Robots.

63) Dragonslayer - How could we forget Phil Tippet's contribution to the world of cinematic dragons? Perhaps the best evil movie dragon till The Hobbit movies came out.

64) Krull - I normally don't think of this as a stop motion film, but the Widow of the Web is a beautiful sequence, even with some repeat footage.

Have we listed I Go Pogo yet? How about Return to Oz? Or The Adventures of Mark Twain?

Finally got a chance to check. None of these were on the list so we're now on #68. Who has 68?

68) The Box Trolls
69) Coraline

How can we have Kubo and not have these?

70) Noah's Ark - An experimental Disney film from the late 50's.
71) Alice in Wonderland - Not the Disney version, but a live-action stop-mo combination from a few years earlier http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=26147 (http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=26147)
72) The New Gulliver - A Soviet retelling of Jonathan Swift's satire. Same director as The Day the Earth Froze. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026793/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_13 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026793/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_13)

73) The Golden Key. Appears to be a Pinocchio adaption w/ stop motion FX. Same director as The New Gulliver.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032162/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_10 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032162/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_10)

74) The Giant Behemoth
How can we forget this? It's reviewed on this very site!

75) Caveman
I believe the dinosaur(s) in this film were brought to life via stop mo. http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907EFD61138F934A25757C0A967948260 (http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907EFD61138F934A25757C0A967948260)

76) Dinosaurus!
How can we forget this? They fight a T-Rex with a wrecking ball!

77) Hercules (1983) - Most of the monster robots were realized with stop mo.

78) Starcrash - Same director and FX artist as Hercules. Features stop mo scenes inspired by Jason and the Argonauts.

79) The Puppetoon Movie - Gumby hosts a film festival of George Pal's old shorts.

https://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP11.htm (https://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP11.htm)

80) Gumby
81) Davey and Goliath

RC already listed a TV show, Land of the Lost, so we might as well list these old Art Clokey shows.

82) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World

I mentioned this earlier, but didn't list it because the stop-mo segment was only a short part of the film's run time. We've now listed other films with only one or two stop mo scenes, so I'll list this now.

Come on, fewer than 20 now...

82) The Ballad of Smokey Bear

A half-hour Videocraft special from the early 70's: http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/animation-anecdotes-323/ (http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/animation-anecdotes-323/)

83) The Little Drummer Boy

84) Hansel and Gretel

https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/20483-Hansel-And-Gretel (https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/20483-Hansel-And-Gretel)

85) My Life as a Zucchini

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nRwYWVxjRU#)

Yes, it's stop-mo, just very smooth stop-mo.
http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/my-life-as-a-courgette-review-1201766688/ (http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/my-life-as-a-courgette-review-1201766688/)

86) Joe's Apartment

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116707/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116707/)

If I understand what I read correctly, most of the FX were done w/ stop-mo. There was some CG too.

Do we have The Crater Lake Monster yet? Seems like an obvious addition...

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0075888/ (http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0075888/)

87) We don't have it yet, so 87's The Crater Lake Monster

Tho I think the numbering's a bit off; we may have fewer than 87. :(

88)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWnXsGjYwS8#)

Never completed, but deserves some credit: Ray Harryhausen's Evolution.

89)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tjskuTFRsQ#)

Before working on monster and adventure films, Harryhausen made a series of animated Fairy Tales. Here's one: Little Red Riding Hood.

Going through http://stopmotionworks.com/video1.htm (http://stopmotionworks.com/video1.htm) I found some more I don't think we have:

89) 7 Faces of Dr. Lao - A George Pal feature with stop mo by Jim Danforth
90) Honey I shrunk the Kids - Been thinking of this one for awhile; Ant/Scorpion battle
91) The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
92) Tom Thumb - More George Pal
93) Dragonworld - Wasn't this one of Charles Band's DTV kid flicks?
94) Jesus the Miracle Maker
95) Howard the Duck

And one more, from their news feed:

96) VIVA The 'NAM - Feature made with animated action figures http://www.stopmotionworks.com/news/index.php/698/viva-the-nam-2010 (http://www.stopmotionworks.com/news/index.php/698/viva-the-nam-2010)

And if we're including flicks with only a few moments of Stop Mo-

97) Star Wars
98) The Force Awakens

In both movies the holographic chess game was realized via stop-mo.

Anyone else know of two more stop-mo films?

99) The Bear (1988) - Uses Stop Mo to create several surreal dreams, tho I can't find a clip.  :bluesad:

100) The Wizard of Speed and Time - Again, how did we miss this?

Well, it looks like this is finished. I'll should probably go through here to check to make sure the count is right and check for repeats. There are also a few others I'd like to add, tho not right now. I wonder if we can list 150...  :buggedout: