George Pal was an animator and film producer of the genre, science fiction. He made the Puppetoons series in the 1940s, this was animatied puppets films which were made using wooden puppets within a stop motion animation technique. A typical Puppetoon would require 9,000 individual carved and machined wooden puppets. The overall technique of using puppets within stop motion animation was originally created by George Pal. George Pal is the best remembered as the producer of several science fiction and fantasy films within the 1950s and 1960s. 'The Rocky Horror Show', he was one of the references to this stage musical. 
George was actually signed to Paramount Pictures in Holland, which was where many other famous animators were working, such as Ray Harryhausen. Due to his genre within stop motion animation being science fiction, this generally shows how stop motion has developed over the many years, as nothing like this has been done before. He was generally famous due to his puppets, whereby some had lots of heads. This may have been due to the influence for the modern film A Nightmare Before Christmas, where the model Jack Skellington had around four hundred heads, which allowed the expression for mass amounts of emotion. With the series 'Puppetoons' I generally feel that the target audience would have been children, this would generally be due to the fact of being able to see the television poster for this which is shown above on the right. The puppetoons are children themselves as well as the colours and the fact the puppets are generally swinging could indicate that it is aimed towards children.
Bibliography:
"George Pal - Bio, Facts, Family | Famous Birthdays". Famous Birthdays. Web. 26 May 2017.
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/george-pal.html
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