Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Directed by	J. Stuart Blackton
Produced by	J. Stuart Blackton
Starring	J. Stuart Blackton
Distributed by	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date(s)	April 6, 1906
Running time	3 minutes
Country	USA
Language	silent

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton in the year 1906. 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. The film moves at 20 frames per second.

In fact the first pictured movie was from Frenchman Émile Reynaud, who created praxynoscope, animation system of 12 pictures, and films of about 500~600 pictures, projected on its own théatre optique, system near from modern film projector, at Musée Grévin in Paris, France, the October 28, 1892. General consensus dictates that Humorous Phases is the earliest known example of animation of any kind.

[edit] See also

• History of animation

[edit] External links

• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at the Internet Movie Database
• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at the Library of Congress

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