The Hand of the Artist
1906 British film
- April 1906 (1906-04)
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The Hand of the Artist is a 1906 British short silent animated trick film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring the director's hand bringing to life photographic images of a young man and woman only for each sequence to end in them being crumpled up. The film features early use of stop action[1] to achieve its effect and had been described as the first British animated film.[2]
The film survives as part of the Corrick Collection of the Corrick family entertainers who toured Australia and the world between 1901 and 1914.[3][4]
References
- ^ Crafton, Donald (April 2015). Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928. ISBN 9780226231020.
- ^ McKernan, Luke. "Booth, W.R. (1869-1938)". BFI Screenonlinee. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ Lewis, Leslie. "The Hand of the Artist". Australian Screen. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "The Hand of the Artist". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
External links
- The Hand of the Artist at IMDb
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Filmography of Walter R. Booth
- The Miser's Doom
- Upside Down; or, the Human Flies
- A Railway Collision
- Artistic Creation
- Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
- The Haunted Curiosity Shop
- The Magic Sword
- An Over-Incubated Baby
- Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost
- Undressing Extraordinary
- The Waif and the Wizard
- The Extraordinary Waiter
- An Extraordinary Cab Accident
- The '?' Motorist
- Is Spiritualism a Fraud?
- The Hand of the Artist
- Willie's Magic Wand
- The Airship Destroyer
- The Aerial Anarchists
- The Automatic Motorist
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