Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

Infobox Film
name = Humorous Phases of Funny Faces


director = J. Stuart Blackton
producer = J. Stuart Blackton
writer =
starring = J. Stuart Blackton
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Vitagraph Company of America
released = April 6, 1906
runtime = 3 minutes
country = flagicon|US USA
language = silent
imdb_id = 0000554

"Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton in the year 1906. It features a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard, and the faces coming to life. It is generally regarded as the first animated film. It features movements as where a dog jumps through a hoop, a scene which actually uses cutout animation made to look like chalk outlines. The film moves at 20 frames per second.

In fact the first pictured movie was from Frenchman Émile Reynaud, who created praxynoscope, animation system of 12 pictures, and films of about 500~600 pictures, projected on its own théatre optique, system near from modern film projector, at Musée Grévin in Paris, France, the October 28, 1892.

ee also

*History of animation

External links

*imdb title|id=0000554
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/animp.4064 Library of Congress: American Memory]


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