sentences:  The film was created using Rankin/Bass' "Animagic" stop motion animation process, supervised by Tadahito Mochinaga at MOM Productions in Tokyo, Japan.The process involved photographing figurines a frame at a time, then re-positioning them, exposing another frame, and so forth.Known as stop-motion animation, it was the same approach used in RKO's "King Kong", Art Clokey's "Gumby" and "Davey and Goliath", and many other films, commercials and TV specials.