# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helena-smith-dayton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:31:08.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helena-smith-dayton"
name: "Helena Smith Dayton"
slug: "helena-smith-dayton"
description: "Helena Smith Dayton (1883–1960) was an American filmmaker, painter and sculptor working in New York City who used fledgling stop motion and clay animation techniques in the 1910s and 1920s, one of the earliest animators to experiment with clay animation. Her \"clay cartoons\" were humorous in nature, and Dayton was featured in the \"Humorist Salons\" in New York City. She spent the end of World War I in Paris, managing an YMCA canteen for soldiers. She was a published author, ranging in genre from journalism to plays to a guide to New York City."
tagline: "American film maker, painter and sculptor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1917_Helena_Smith_Dayton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1879"
deathDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.80414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ہیلینا اسمتھ ڈیٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيلينا سميث دايتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helena Smith Dayton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Smith_Dayton"
    title: "Helena Smith Dayton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Smith_Dayton"
    title: "Helena Smith Dayton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D4%B4%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%A9%D5%B8%D5%B6"
    title: "Հելենա Դեյթոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਹੈਲੇਨਾ ਸਮਿਥ ਡੇਟਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Дейтон, Хелена"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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