[2] But it was also common before as highlighted in a 1961 letter to The New York Times, where Louis Clyde Stoumen surveyed earlier uses of the technique by him and other documentary filmmakers.
[1] Robert Downey Sr.'s 1966 feature film Chafed Elbows is constructed primarily from still photographs, with a few live-action sequences.
Additionally, the use of still images made possible a scene in which one character appears to throw another out of a high window, while the actors remained safe.
Additionally, in Year of the Nail, the director pieced together unstaged photographs from his real life and was able to build a fictional story from these.
[9] He has also cited the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary City of Gold,[10] co-directed by Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, as a prior example of the technique.
[16] As most audiences are unaccustomed to still image films, many viewers are initially turned off by them, but Jonás Cuarón said that people adjust to the style after about seven minutes, as long as the story is engaging.