Question: What type of animation was used in the show created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and an American director, producer, composer, lyricist, and author?

full_context: Document 1: Josquin Des Pres (20th century musician): Josquin Des Pres (Born Josquin Turenne Des Pres) is a 20th-century French born American composer, bassist, author, producer, songwriter and most known for his contributions to music media books for Hal Leonard Corporation and Mel Bay instructional music books. Josquin has written a vast library of compositions and music techniques on bass, music studies and various collections which are used by music teachers, private studies and in schools both nationally and internationally as a standard tool in the music industry. Des Pres is also a collaborative writer with English lyricist, poet, and singer Bernie Taupin on several compositions. Josquin Des Pres also writes musical scores and music trailers for more than 40 major TV networks and television shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Bachelor (U.S. TV series), American Idol, The Tyra Banks Show, George Lopez (TV series), Anderson Cooper, TMZ on TV, Extra (TV program), American Chopper, Pawn Stars, Deadliest Catch, CNN, NBC, HGTV, TBS (U.S. TV channel), Bravo (U.S. TV network), Food Network, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, History (U.S. TV channel), Travel Channel, CBS Television Stations, Viacom, VH1, ABC, BET, KPBS (TV), TLC (TV network), and The CW Network. His works are also known on MTV Networks Television Series Catfish, The Seven, When I Was Seventeen, MTV Cribs, Pimp My Ride, Teen Mom, True Life and 10 on Top.
Document 2: Jules Bass: Jules Bass (born September 16, 1935) is an American director, producer, composer, lyricist, and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded a film production company in New York. He joined ASCAP in 1963 and collaborated musically with Edward Thomas and James Polack.
Document 3: Pinocchio (1940 film): Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Italian children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. It was the second animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the success of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937).
Document 4: Bill Lee (musician): William James Edwards "Bill" Lee III (born July 23, 1928) is an American musician. He has played the bass for many artists including Chris Anderson, Cat Stevens, Harry Belafonte, Chad Mitchell Trio, Gordon Lightfoot, Aretha Franklin, Odetta, Simon and Garfunkel, Ian & Sylvia, Tom Rush, Burt Bacharach, Peter, Paul and Mary, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Carolyn Hester, John Lee Hooker, Josh White, Duke Ellington, Malvina Reynolds, Eric Bibb, The Clancy Brothers and Bob Dylan. On the original release of Dylan's classic song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," Lee, on bass guitar, is the only musician performing other than Dylan himself. He is the father of Spike Lee.
Document 5: The Adventures of Pinocchio (unfinished film): The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italian: "Le avventure di Pinocchio" ) was an Italian animated film directed by Raoul Verdini and Umberto Spano. Created and produced by Cartoni Animati Italiani Roma (CAIR) and distributed by De Vecchi, this cartoon was based on the famous children's book "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. The film was intended to be the first animated feature film from Italy, but was never completed; if the film was finished, it also would have been the first cel animated feature film ever, beating "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", and the first animated film adaptation based on the novel of the same name, It is now considered lost: only the original script and a couple of still frames are all that survived of the film.
Document 6: Pinocchio in Outer Space: Pinocchio in Outer Space is a 1965 Belgian-American animated film which sets Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio character on a rocketship adventure. Peter Lazer does the voice of Pinocchio. The film was produced by Ray Goossens at Belvision Studios, with American involvement from Norm Prescott (Filmation) and Fred Ladd.
Document 7: The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 film): The Adventures of Pinocchio is a 1996 American fantasy adventure film based on Carlo Collodi's original novel of the same name co-written and directed by Steve Barron. Barron collaborated with Sherry Mills, Tom Bender and Barry Berman on the screenplay. The film was an American, British, French, Czech and German venture produced by New Line Cinema, The Kushner-Locke Company, Savoy Pictures, Pangaea Holdings and Twin Continental Films. The film stars Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Rob Schneider, Udo Kier, Bebe Neuwirth, David Doyle and Geneviève Bujold.
Document 8: Tadahito Mochinaga: Tadahito Mochinaga (持永 只仁 , Mochinaga Tadahito , March 3, 1919 – April 1, 1999) , also known as Tad Mochinaga, was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator. Having done many stop motion films/shorts in Japan, he is best known as the animator for Rankin/Bass' "Animagic" productions at his MOM Studio in Tokyo throughout the 1960s. He did this work in association with American director Arthur Rankin, Jr. who wrote and designed the productions before sending them to Japan for animation.
Document 9: Jake Bass: Jake Bass (born December 13, 1989 in Detroit) is an American composer and music producer. Jake is the son of Jeff Bass who is half of the Bass Brothers production team that discovered Eminem. Jake has produced tracks for Bizarre (rapper) from D12 including his song "Fat Boy" off the Blue Cheese & Coney Island record. He has also worked closely with deaf rapper Sean Forbes producing all of his tracks and performing live with him. They released a full-length album in the fall of 2012 with all songs produced by Bass called "Perfect Imperfection". Later that year, Jake and his father Jeff Bass composed the music for Chrysler's Big Finish 2012 ad campaign. Jake also composed the music for the Ovation (TV channel) television series, "Motor City Rising" in 2012. Bass then released his debut single titled, "One" in October 2013 which featured two instrumental songs as well as a music video Directed by Stefan Vardon. In December 2013, Jake released his full-length debut instrumental album "1989". In July of 2016 Bass released his second instrumental album "My City: Detroit."
Document 10: Burt Bacharach: Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of popular hit songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with popular lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. s of 2014 , he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.
Document 11: Tom Bass (American football): Tom Bass is a retired American football coach who spent 30 years as an assistant with the Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and San Diego Chargers. He played at San Jose State University as a lineman until a bout of polio left him unable to play football. He then served as an undergraduate coach, and upon graduation, as an assistant under Don Coryell. He later worked on the Chargers staff with Sid Gillman, the Bengals staff with Paul Brown, and the Buccaneers staff under John McKay. He joined the Buccaneers in their inaugural season as their director of pro scouting, and unofficially took over the offensive coordinator role when John Rauch resigned. By the next season, he had become the team's defensive coordinator. He is credited with designing the Tampa Bay defense that ranked at or near the top of the league from 1978 to 1981. He left Tampa Bay before the 1982 NFL season to join the Chargers, tasked with improving their league-last pass defense. He was also noted for teaching clinics to help female fans understand the game of football, and for having written two volumes of poetry. He has published several books of football drills and instructional techniques.
Document 12: Arthur Rankin Jr.: Arthur Gardner Rankin Jr. (July 19, 1924 – January 30, 2014) was an American director, producer and writer, who mostly worked in animation. A part of Rankin/Bass Productions with his friend Jules Bass, he created stop-motion animation features such as "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and the 1977 cartoon animation of "The Hobbit". He is credited on over 1,000 television programs.
Document 13: The New Adventures of Pinocchio (TV series): The New Adventures of Pinocchio is a syndicated stop motion animated television series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in the United States and made by Dentsu Studios in Japan. Created by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and his partner Jules Bass, it was based on the book "The Adventures of Pinocchio" written by Italian author, Carlo Collodi. The series was Rankin/Bass' first production to be made in "Animagic", a stop motion puppet technique which, in association with the company, was done by Tadahito Mochinaga's MOM Productions (before Mochinaga leaves for China after the finished animation for "Mad Monster Party?"). A total of 130 five-minute "chapters" were produced in 1960–61. These segments made up a series of five-chapter, 25-minute episodes. During 1963–64, the series was also aired in Japan on Fuji TV as part of another stop motion TV series, "Prince Ciscorn" (シスコン王子, lit. "Ciscorn Ōji"), based on the manga by Fujiko Fujio and also produced by Tadahito Mochinaga for Studio KAI and Dentsu.
Document 14: Jerry Kasenetz: Jerry Kasenetz (born May 5, 1943, Brooklyn, New York) is an American bubblegum pop producer who worked with Jeff Katz, the two working together as the Super K Productions company, to manufacture and produce bands such as Shadows of Knight, Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus, The Music Explosion, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Crazy Elephant, and The Ohio Express. Kasenetz and Katz met at the University of Arizona in the early sixties. Both came from observant Jewish families. One of their first projects in the music business was as concert promoters bringing the British band the Dave Clarke Five to the University of Arizona. Leaving the University of Arizona before their senior year they moved back to New York and opened a small office on Broadway in Manhattan. Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz created the concept of bubblegum music. Neil Bogart of Buddah Records asked the duo to come up with a marketing name for their music. Between 1967 to 1969 some of their bubblegum music releases are "Beg, Borrow and Steal," "1,2,3, Red Light," "Goody, Goody Gumdrops," "Indian Giver," "Down at Lulu's," "Chewy,Chewy," "Mercy," "Simon Says," "Special Delivery," "Yummy Yummy Yummy" and "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin." In 1966 their first production was with Christine Cooper "S.O.S. Heart In Distress." In 1966 Kasenetz and Katz had also begun working with an Ohio band, The Music Explosion who recorded " Little Bit O' Soul." Kasenetz got in his car and drove across the country promoting the song to radio stations. In July 1967, the song reached No. 2 on the charts, selling a million copies. This solidified Kasenetz and Katz as music industry players. In Spring, 1975, Kasenetz and Katz formed their own label, Magna Glide, and recorded artists at K&K Studio City in Great Neck, N.Y. In 1977 Kasenetz and Katz achieved another top twenty hit "Black Betty" by the group Ram Jam.
Document 15: Rankin/Bass Productions: Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. (founded as Videocraft International, Ltd.) was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop motion animation. The pre-1974 library is owned by Universal Studios (via DreamWorks Animation/DreamWorks Classics), while the post-1973 library is owned by Warner Bros. Rankin/Bass stop-motion features are recognisable by their visual style of doll-like characters with spheroid body parts, and ubiquitous powdery snow using an animation technique called "Animagic". Often, traditional cel animation scenes of falling snow would be projected over the action to create the effect of a snowfall.
ground_truth: stop motion