The Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces

Blackton drew cartoon faces on a blackboard and filmed them, stopping the camera in order to erase one face and draw another, before filming the new drawing. It ran at around 70 minutes and comprised 58, frames, but all known copies of the film were lost in a fire in It was also the first in colour, and marked the studio's feature-length debut. Disney's wife, Lillian, apparently tried to talk him out of it, saying: "No one's ever gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture. Its films span female-oriented fantasy My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service to tougher subjects, such as second world war drama Grave of the Fireflies and the environmentally themed Pom Poko.

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 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. 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. 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.

Stuart Blackton in the year 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.

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