''Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'' is a 1906
short
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silent animated cartoon
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directed by
James Stuart Blackton
James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897. He was one of the first filmmakers to ...
and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on
standard picture film.
[Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol2. FLE-POT p.562 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 (3 book set ) Retrieved June 27, 2018]
Content
In the cartoon, animated hand-drawn scenes appear on a chalkboard, including a clown playing with a hat and a dog jumping through a hoop. In the beginning, though, the cartoonist's hands are included, too, as he draws the first several lines on the chalkboard in standard live action. From there, the stop-motion technique is used to show what appears to be drawings completing—and then moving—by themselves with no artist on screen.
Techniques
Stop-motion
Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames i ...
as well as
cutout animation
Cutout animation is a form of stop-motion animation using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or photographs. The props would be cut out and used as puppets for stop motion. The world's ea ...
are used, just as Edwin Porter moved his letters in ''How Jones Lost His Roll'', and ''The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog''. However, there is a very short section of the film where things are made to appear to move by altering the drawings themselves from frame to frame.
The film moves at 20 frames per second.
See also
* ''
Fantasmagorie''
* ''
The Enchanted Drawing
''The Enchanted Drawing'' is a 1900 silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It is best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film, which has led Blackton to be considered the father of American animati ...
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History of animation
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References
External links
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''Humorous Phases of Funny Faces''at the
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1906 films
1906 short films
1906 animated films
Animated comedy films
1900s animated short films
American black-and-white films
American silent short films
Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton
1906 comedy films
Vitagraph Studios short films
Silent American comedy films
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American comedy short films
1900s American films
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