Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
1906 film by J. Stuart Blackton
- April 6, 1906 (1906-04-06)
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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.[1][2]
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 as well as cutout animation 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
- History of animation
References
- ^ Beckerman, Howard (2003-09-01). Animation: the whole story. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-58115-301-9. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol2. FLE-POT p.562 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 ISBN 0-89356-241-6 (3 book set ISBN 0-89356-239-4) Retrieved June 27, 2018
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to James Stuart Blackton.
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at IMDb
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at the Library of Congress
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces on YouTube
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Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton
- The Life of Moses (1909)
- The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
- Whom the Gods Destroy (1916)
- The Judgment House (1917)
- Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917)
- Life's Greatest Problem (1918)
- The World for Sale (1918)
- The Common Cause (1919)
- My Husband's Other Wife (1920)
- Passers By (1920)
- The House of the Tolling Bell (1920)
- Respectable by Proxy (1920)
- Man and His Woman (1920)
- The Blood Barrier (1920)
- The Forbidden Valley (1920)
- The Glorious Adventure (1922)
- A Gipsy Cavalier (1922)
- The Virgin Queen (1923)
- On the Banks of the Wabash (1923)
- Between Friends (1924)
- Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924)
- The Beloved Brute (1924)
- The Clean Heart (1924)
- Behold This Woman (1924)
- The Happy Warrior (1925)
- The Redeeming Sin (1925)
- Tides of Passion (1925)
- Bride of the Storm (1926)
- Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926)
- The Gilded Highway (1926)
- The Passionate Quest (1926)
- The American (1927)
- The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
- The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
- The Automobile Thieves (1906)
- The Haunted Hotel (1907)
- A Curious Dream (1907)
- Macbeth (1908)
- Romeo and Juliet (1908)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1908)
- Oliver Twist (1909)
- Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
- Les Misérables (1909)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
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