We found a link to the ‘Mysteries of Vernacular’ website through a tweet posted by @brainpicker. She described it as ‘amazing stop-motion animations made on the pages of a book to explain a specific word’. The website states …
In its final form, Mysteries of Vernacular will contain 26 etymological installments, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each episode takes me more than 80 hours to create between the research, construction of the book, and animation.