I'm firmly of the camp that this really dates from 1914, thanks to this fabulous article on Silent-ology: silentology.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/is-matches-an-appeal-the-oldest-surviving-animated-film/

Nonetheless, it's a clever little film, and the matchstick fellows are pretty cute, even if it's not very riveting to watch.

Almost forgot I watched this in class Thursday. Matches: An Appeal is basically one of the first filmed PSAs, and it consists of stop-motion animated matches. My guess it was part experiment, part drawing people's attention for propagandist purposes.

Pretty cool.

It's neat that one of the earliest animations was stop motion, but I guess it makes sense and would be a bit more cost effective for the time.

The beginning of stop motion animation...

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

شاید باید اولین انیمیشن ساخته شده در تاریخ سینما استاپ-موشن باشد چرا که از لحاظ اجرا ساده ترین است. چند تکه چوب به شکل آدمک های چوبی در آمده اند تا پیامی را روی تخته سیاه برای سربازان بنویسند. انیمیشن و تبلیغات از ابتدا به هم گره خورده بودند..

We don't want this to be the beginning: a PSA for participation in colonial war, figures who direct our eyes away from themselves, toward dull text.

We want myths: Blackton's lightning sketch coming to life, Gertie lifting McCay in the vaudeville theater, Segundo de Chomon delicately arranging his wife's hair, and most of all the obsessive, art-literate whimsy of Cohl, finally banished to the Jersey Palisades.

If somehow this is a first, then firsts should be footnotes.

This is more likely from 1914 than 1899, which destroys its claim as the first stop-motion film, but it's still clever and well done, if short.

Although… matches asking to be sent to soldiers is a bit like if the EAT MOR CHIKEN ads were populated with chickens.

--1st-- pierwszy film animowany: lalkowy "Apel zapałek",
--1st-- animation, vintage timelapse...

It's a cute little animation, nothing more though

Send matches!

Pretty cool.

It's neat that one of the earliest animations was stop motion, but I guess it makes sense and would be a bit more cost effective for the time.

The beginning of stop motion animation...

this guy made gumby in 1899

Almost forgot I watched this in class Thursday. Matches: An Appeal is basically one of the first filmed PSAs, and it consists of stop-motion animated matches. My guess it was part experiment, part drawing people's attention for propagandist purposes.

I'm firmly of the camp that this really dates from 1914, thanks to this fabulous article on Silent-ology: silentology.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/is-matches-an-appeal-the-oldest-surviving-animated-film/

Nonetheless, it's a clever little film, and the matchstick fellows are pretty cute, even if it's not very riveting to watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HD9NwzFNLY

It’s stop-motion animation thirteen years before Wladyslaw Starewicz. What am I missing here? This is close to awesome.

More colonialist than Pocahontas.