In '' Matches Appeal '' stop frame puppets made of matches were filmed frame by frame as they wrote on a blackboard , six or seven years ahead of the animation pioneers in France and America .
In '' Matches Appeal '' stop frame puppets made of matches appealled for money for the troops fighting the Boer War in South Africa . 
 The puppets were filmed frame by frame as they wrote on a blackboard , six or seven years ahead of the animation pioneers in France and America .