1906: Six years after creating “The Enchanted Drawing,” J. Stuart Blackton made “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces,” a film in which you see an artist’s hand draw faces and figures that begin to move.
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
December 7th, 2009 
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yeh mate was a chalk board, awesome eh! I had to do an essay in college about animation as its what i do, but yeh your right man its one of the earliest animations J.Stuart Blackton 1900’s think 1906 or sumtin
think imdb meant it was the first of its kind on a standard picture film
There were quite a few endeavors before this, the earliest I know of being The Enchanted Drawing by James Stuart Blackton right in 1900.
UHUM..
i think IMDB is wrong. this was just one of the earliest surviving American animated films. yeah its from 1906 by J. Stuart Blacktons company “vitagraph” Its pretty sweet stop motion for back in the day tho!
it is the first cartoon in the world
but… it was made in ms powerpoint
I wouldn’t say it was the first ever. Emile Reynaurd invented the Theater Optique, which would project hundreds of drawings.
the first ever was the enchanted drawing. i think, im confused because im doing a project and i am not sure why everyone is saying this was the first!
Wow. The ones that move look like a flash animation. That’s pretty wicked.
aww traditional animation
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Because this is actually the first time that images were shown to move like they do in cel animation. Never before had drawings moved and reacted on their own. It was an advancement of stop motion, which generally uses live objects that are moved between frames. So instead of using physical objects, these chalk drawings were used instead.
enchanted drawing wasn’t quite the same, though it can be seen as the step in between the previous method and new cel animation. This one’s still the first.
You are right. The earliest moving pictures were not photographs, so they were all animations of a sort – even the eariest phenakistoscope.
This though, is the earliest example of an animated film.
WTF??
Great video (:
i can only imagine how people back then laughed their asses off while watching this
Kinda makes you think of when you were a kid…
Kidding. If you could remember this you would be dead.
Great video, a great mark in history
haha
yeah man definitely a giant leap or man.
At 1:43, a scene is omitted from this historical classic. Would the poster care to share what it was for posterity’s sake?
It was the first animated film on celluloid but not the first animation to be projected on screen.
The first ones were made around 1892-1893 in France and Germany and featured color drawings on a semi-transparent paper fitted into a projector similar to a celluloid one and projected in 5-10 frames per second.
@inkosurf it was ones of the first ever animation on celluloid. Its a great mark in the history of animation.
Does anybody agree.. I would happily watch this animation all day but i would hate to have to watch all this new computer generated animation crap that is on the childrens television.. I used to love the old cartoons – Dexters labarotory, Power puff girls and etc. but these new ones just look bad.. Johnny test? What the Hell is this crap. Looney toons was the stuff, they were real cartoon characters – could never kill bugs or wiley – i would happily kill off these new abominations. Im 13 BTW!
@KingKael00 .. yes, sorry, it was fun for me when a i wrote that… it’s great to have this material on internet this days : )
great video, btw: on 2:25 you see the arm of the drawer