Stop-motion puppet animation, 12fps, Steve Burton claymation style, handcrafted aesthetic, frame-...

Stop-motion puppet animation, 12fps, Steve Burton claymation style, handcrafted aesthetic, frame-by-frame jerky movement, visible clay textures and wool fibers, color palette cold blue and deep shadow with small warm accent from bare ceiling bulb, 1990s Soviet apartment CORRIDOR. NO GHOSTS, NO ORBS, NO SPECTRAL HANDS. ONLY THE DOOR, THE LIGHT, AND THE GIRL. CAMERA: slow smooth tracking backward, camera pulls away from the entrance door by approximately 10cm over 5 seconds, steady and smooth, no shake, as if retreating. CORRIDOR: Narrow hallway with SAME textured wallpaper and SAME linoleum as living room — visual continuity. Left wall: dark wooden coat rack with brass hooks — beige trench coat, dark blue wool coat, small red child's jacket with fur-trimmed hood. Below: small wooden shoe rack with shoes. Right wall: wall-mounted beige rotary bakelite telephone — receiver OFF HOOK, dangling from curled cord. Framed folk embroidery above phone, slightly crooked. Far end: ENTRANCE DOOR — white painted wood, yellowed with age, brass peephole, brass door chain. Dark brown leatherette-upholstered inner panel with vertical stitched lines. Overhead: bare bulb in frosted glass shade, dim warm light. GIRL: EXACT SAME as all previous scenes — warm beige skin, rosy flush, hazel-brown glass eyes, brown bob with straight bangs (now disheveled), red barrette hanging loose by a few strands, NO white streak, burgundy cable-knit sweater (bunched from movement), white blouse collar (askew), navy blue skirt (twisted), cream tights (slightly dirtied at left knee), ONE dark blue slipper on right foot, LEFT FOOT bare in cream tight, second slipper on floor behind her, chipped pink nail polish. ACTION: Girl stumbles backward into corridor from left — enters in 3 jerky steps, arms flailing. She falls onto linoleum floor — drops in 4 distinct frames, lands on left elbow. Right arm shoots up toward entrance door — hand forms WARDING GESTURE (index and pinky extended, middle and ring curled, thumb tucked), fingers spread, arm trembling. Left slipper flies off — arcs through air, lands behind her. ENTRANCE DOOR BULGES INWARD — leatherette panel swells into rectangular COFFIN SHAPE over 8 frames. Stitched seams split — 3 ruptures in sequence, white cotton padding pushes through. Door frame cracks — cream paint chips fall in slow motion, 6 chips tumbling. Brass chain pulls taut — circular links stretch into ovals, one link beginning to fracture. Cold BLUE-WHITE LIGHT spills from door cra