blackboard stop motion 1906

The story in brief

The film is about a cartoonist's line drawings of two faces on a blackboard and they apparently came to life. The two faces smiled and winked and the cigar-smoking man blew smoke in the lady's face. Also, a circus clown led a small dog to jump through a hoop. It actually uses cutout animation made to look like chalk outlines.

Katsudō Shashin (1907)

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The beginnings of animation: James Stuart Blackton

James Stuart Blackton (Sheffield, 1875 – Hollywood, 1945) was a director and producer of silent films. He founded the Vitagraph Studios and is considered the father of American animation. He began his professional career as an illustrator for the New York World newspaper.

Stop-motion

In 1906 the Vitagraph patented a new technique to animate inert objects, the stop-motion, also denominated like passage of crank or American movement. Stop-motion seeks to create the sensation of movement by arranging a series of successive still images.

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a silent film of James Stuart Blackton released in the year 1906, and perhaps his most outstanding work, in which is already used the technique of the crank step or stop-motion by which animated drawings done On a blackboard captured using a film that moves at 20 frames per second.