Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton

J. Stuart Blackton

James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation...

 released in 1906. It features a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard, and the faces coming to life. It is generally regarded by film historians as the first animated

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 film. It features movements as where a dog jumps through a hoop, a scene which actually uses cutout animation

Cutout animation

Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs...

 made to look like chalk outlines. The film moves at 20 frames per second.

External links

• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at the Library of Congress
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