To ensure that wasn’t the case, he enlisted independent stop-motion storyteller Kirsten Lepore as his animation director to lend her expertise to the meticulous frame-by-frame technique.

Not content to merely collect die cast F1 cars, the creator of this video built a track and painstakingly filmed a 10-minute Grand Prix in stop-motion, complete with replays and commentary.

First things first: Stop-motion animation, especially in old science fiction and fantasy movies, is great. It looks good. It’s fun. It doesn’t need to be “fixed.” That said, the internet ...