Moving image genre-form guide online, April 14, 2008 (Cutout animation: type of animation using still photos and cut-outs to form a collage. UF: Collage animation)

National Film Board of Canada website, April 14, 2008: Focus on animation, techniques page (Paper cut-outs: this technique, which is as old as animated film itself...can be applied in a variety of ways. Movement can be achieved by replacing various cut-outs or by animating characters with moveable parts. Moveable parts can also be placed directly on a background drawing or on many separately lit planes)

Wikipedia website, April 14, 2008 (Cutout animation [uses] flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations...as is the world's earliest surviving animated feature. Today, cutout-style animation is frequently produced using computers, with scanned images or vector graphics taking the place of physically cut materials)