Work cat.: Tim Burton's The nightmare before Christmas [VR] 2008.

Wikipedia, Feb. 8, 2010 The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 stop motion fantasy film) stop motion (Stop-motion (also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own; the object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence; stop-motion films) List of stop motion films (stop motion films; stop motion animated feature films; stop motion/live action features; short films with stop motion animation; stop motion shorts)

Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993: p. 15 (Object Animation Films; almost any object can be animated using the stop-motion technique; all sorts of objects have been used in animation: matchsticks, tin soldiers, pieces of furniture, skeletons. When using clay, the terms claymation and sculptmation are sometimes used for clay animation)

Singleton, R.S. Filmmaker's dictionary, c2000 (stop-motion animation: Process of creating movement in drawings, wire or mechanically jointed figures or other objects by filming the subject one or more frames at a time, making a small change in the subject's position, then recording another one or more frames and so on. Also called stop-action animation)

Konigsberg, I. The complete film dictionary, c1997 (stop motion, stop-motion cinematography, stop-action, stop-action cinematography, single-frame cinematography)