# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claire-parker
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:08:24.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claire-parker"
name: "Claire Parker"
slug: "claire-parker"
description: "Claire Parker was an American engineer and animator. A graduate of MIT, she invented the Pinscreen, a vertically mounted grid of between 240,000 and 1 million sliding metal rods that are first manually pushed into position to create lit and shaded areas, then filmed frame by frame. While the hand-operated, mechanical Pinscreen superficially shares characteristics with early optical toys like the zoetrope, it is distinguished by being one of the first devices ever to produce animation by reconfiguring a set of individual picture elements, later called pixels. A model with sufficient pin \"resolution\" can be used to create a Pinscreen animation of photorealistic images, a painstaking process analogous to modern pixel art."
tagline: "American animator (1906-1981)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bLM7Z8PpU5jTGpVeqiyNQCHixKs.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-08-31"
deathDate: "1981-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             2.542372881355932
  historical:           6.142297333333333
  currentAttention:     14.12429378531073
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662149/"
    handle:    "nm0662149"
sources:
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Клер Паркер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Parker"
    title: "Claire Parker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Parker"
    title: "Claire Parker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Parker"
    title: "Claire Parker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Parker"
    title: "Claire Parker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC"
    title: "クレア・パーカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16009678"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1089248"
    title: "Claire Parker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump