Who started stop motion???

I did some research on the web. Here it is, stop motion was started at 1898 by Albert E.Smith and J.Stuart Blacton for Toy Circus. The acrobat and animals comes to life. It is quite surprise for me myself because I was expected it to be some sort of film? But i guess it is pretty much the same.

Stop motion this technique never stop. After that in 1902, one of the sequence in the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used stop motion technique.

J.Stuart Blacton created a stop motion film called The Haunted Hotel in 1907. It was a success when it was released. Blacton seems to be very important role in early stop motion age. He started stop motion in a circus and then a stop motion film. Segundo de Chomon from Spain use the same technique as Blacton for his film El Hotel Electrico later in same year.