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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)

Name: Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Genre: Animation
Released: 1906
Duration: 3 min

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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) is a 3-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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Synopsis

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated film 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.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

About Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)

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.

Quick facts

Year: 1906
Runtime: 3 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Credits (Internet Archive record): J. Stuart Blackton
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

Synopsis from the Internet Archive item page

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Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1906 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent cartoon.
Source: Internet Archive

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