High quality chalk, low quality eraser

watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGh6maN4l2I

the first animation ever. stop-motion on a chalkboard.

how do you even come up with the idea to do something like this? brilliant. innovative. End of Evangelion happened because of this. think about it.

This is a pretty good meme

The Weekly Animation Challenge 2019: Week 1 - Early Experimental

Ooh boy James Stuart Blackton could have used a better chalk eraser! But I guess as he's arguably made the the first animated film recorded on standard picture film so we'll give him a pass. Employing stop-motion animation and some cutout animation he makes hand drawn chalk pictures come alive. A clown plays with his hat, a dog jumps through a hoop. It's simple stuff but it's fun.

this made me feel my own mortality keenly

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Early animation that shows the cartoonist drawing the characters is practically a sub-genre onto itself, and this is probably what started it all. If I had been into these things as a kid they probably would have inspired me to learn how to draw. Alas.

This isn't anything but some formal experimentation, but it has some pretty cool stuff that I wasn't expecting and haven't seen anywhere else. The bit where the figures get un-erased was neat, and I can't figure out how director J. Stuart Blackton "erased" what was almost certainly a paper cutout. Guess I'll have to watch this again!

Simple yet utterly groundbreaking, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is living history. It blows my mind to think what a few straightforward drawings on a chalkboard has led to.

Contrary to its great title, I personally did not find Humorous Phases of Funny Faces as enjoyable as I did The Enchanted Drawing, but it's definitely a far more technically accomplished film; a pioneering work of stop-motion animation being blended with live-action, as it expands on the number of drawings and also movements (making it the first entirely animated film in cinema history, coming two years before the French animated film Fantasmagorie, which was the first to use traditional animation methods, and would go on to further raise the bar for the medium - oddly enough, both of these films feature clowns). James Stuart Blackton was considered the father of American animation for a reason, you know.

idk it's just giving me the heebie jeebies

*logs two short films that amount to a total of four minutes* i logged two films today??? damn if best cinephile were a category in the oscars i'd win it for sure

Crazy to think all those erased drawings are still alive in Chalk Zone.

I cant watch this without imagining the sound of chalk on board and it hurts

Màs de 100 años y sigue siendo hermoso

ahaha posta no feice

This is actually really cool, didn't realise you could do stuff like this in 1906.

É considerado o primeiro filme de animação gravado em filme padrão. É também o primeiro exemplo sobrevivente de um filme de animação desenhado e foi o primeiro desenho animado a usar o método de quadro único projetado a 20 quadros por segundo.

Wow that was really clean for the first animation ever, I'm impressed :)

First ever "booba" meme

That clown was creepy af

The 72 Most Popular 1900s Films Marathon ― #45

Really loving J. Stuart Blackton's Draw My Life video!

On a serious note: The first film to use stop-motion for drawings, including one impressive use of footage reversal.

Luis’ Essential Cinema Selections (The 1900s; Films #51 To #100)

Film #78: Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces

Why Is It Essential?: This filming of animated drawings by the animation pioneer James Stuart Blackton is incidentally arguably the first ever hand drawn animation film recorded on standard picture in cinema's history.

My Review: A pivotal moment in film that should be watched by every cinephile, but ultimately it is just a short clip that you can easily watch online.

Final Grade: C-

More On The List As A Whole:
letterboxd.com/authorlmendez/list/luis-essential-cinema-selections-the-start/

First example of drawn animation in film. I admit that the bad eraser made me a bit upset. Clean that mofo!

Animación muy limitada, entre el stop motion y el dibujo, pero enorme salto evolutivo en la historia de la animación. La narración se resiente mucho, pero porque aquí lo único importante era generar fascinación.