Animated Putty (1911) - Britain’s first stop-motion clay animation film

Decades before Gumby rode Pokey and Wallace petted Gromit, tendrils of clay writhed with agency on a dim screen. Ernst Haeckel once fantasized about Urschleim, a kind of primeval sludge from which all biological beings arose…

Walter R. Booth and F. Percy Smith, Animated Putty (Kineto, 1911).

(The Public Domain Review)