I began doing stop motion when I was a weird little kid in middle school.
I shot on a clunky old VHS camera that had no still frame capability...I'd just turn the camera on and off as fast as I could.
One early stop motion project done this way was a tongue in cheek assignment for my music class...It was called music thru the ages...Check it out at the following link (as I would not upload it here amongst all my newer and actually sort of decent stuff!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NRHBG7KdnQ