Site update — 2026-08-13

Catalogue: Community sweep (Cartoon Brew, Animation Magazine, Aardman/Pokémon/PFCAT/Frame Fest coverage) found the recent-news layer already fully captured by prior runs, so effort redirected to two under-mined pools: (1) the Krátký Film Praha studio-mining queue's TMDB company filmography was cross-checked against the catalogue, matching thin row darkness-light-darkness to a Švankmajer plasticine short and correcting its year/format/technique/studio plus adding director+animator credits; (2) 12 pioneer-era (1898-1913) 'Research needed' rows imported from Wikipedia/TMDB stop-motion lists were resolved with sourced studio, technique and director credits -- Émile Cohl/Gaumont (The Little Soldier Who Became a God, The Boutdebois Brothers), Segundo de Chomón/Pathé Frères (Hôtel électrique + its TMDB duplicate The Electric Hotel, Scullion's Dream), Ladislas Starevich/Khanzhonkov and Co. (The Beautiful Leukanida, The Ant and the Grasshopper + its TMDB duplicate The Grasshopper and the Ant), J. Stuart Blackton/Vitagraph (Princess Nicotine, and the lost film Humpty Dumpty Circus with Albert E. Smith as producer), Walter R. Booth/Charles Urban Trading Co. (The Sorcerer's Scissors, correcting a prior wrong Chomón/Pathé assumption), and Arthur Melbourne-Cooper/Alpha Trading Company (Dreams of Toyland). Two TMDB duplicate rows were linked via canonical_work_id to their fuller twin instead of being re-researched. Left unresolved/skipped where sourcing was too thin to avoid inventing data: Diving Lucy (likely a miscategorized live-action Mitchell & Kenyon comedy, not stop motion), Modern Sculptors (no reliable source found), and several other Krátký Film Praha page-1 titles (Nazdar kedlubny, Mimikry, Tma-světlo-tma dupes, Rohy, Projekt, Všehochlup) not independently confirmed as this studio's stop-motion output. 3 new people added, 12 new credits added, 0 new works (all enrichment of existing thin rows). · Site: Institutional prose section landmarks and consistent spacing · Wiki: Animator access in stop-motion set design, Stop-motion puppet maintenance and on-set repair, Duplicate puppets and asset replication for parallel stages, Lighting flicker control in stop motion