Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

1906 film by J. Stuart Blackton

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

* April 6, 1906 (1906-04-06)

Running time

| 3 minutes
Country| United States
Language| silent

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.[1][2]

## Content

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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.

## Techniques

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A single frame from the animation, showing the use of cut-out technique

Stop-motion as well as cutout animation are used, just as Edwin Porter moved his letters in How Jones Lost His Roll, and The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog. However, there is a very short section of the film where things are made to appear to move by altering the drawings themselves from frame to frame.

The film moves at 20 frames per second.

## See also

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* Fantasmagorie
* The Enchanted Drawing
* History of animation

## References

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1. ^ Beckerman, Howard (September 1, 2003). Animation: the whole story. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. p. 16\. ISBN 978-1-58115-301-9. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
2. ^ Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol2. FLE-POT p.562 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 ISBN 0-89356-241-6 (3 book set ISBN 0-89356-239-4) Retrieved June 27, 2018

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to James Stuart Blackton.

* Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at IMDb
* Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
* Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at the Library of Congress
* Humorous Phases of Funny Faces on YouTube

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Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton

Feature films|

* The Life of Moses (1909)
* The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
* Whom the Gods Destroy (1916)
* The Judgment House (1917)
* Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917)
* Life's Greatest Problem (1918)
* The World for Sale (1918)
* The Common Cause (1919)
* My Husband's Other Wife (1920)
* Passers By (1920)
* The House of the Tolling Bell (1920)
* Respectable by Proxy (1920)
* Man and His Woman (1920)
* The Blood Barrier (1920)
* The Forbidden Valley (1920)
* The Glorious Adventure (1922)
* A Gipsy Cavalier (1922)
* The Virgin Queen (1923)
* On the Banks of the Wabash (1923)
* Between Friends (1924)
* Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924)
* The Beloved Brute (1924)
* The Clean Heart (1924)
* Behold This Woman (1924)
* The Happy Warrior (1925)
* The Redeeming Sin (1925)
* Tides of Passion (1925)
* Bride of the Storm (1926)
* Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926)
* The Gilded Highway (1926)
* The Passionate Quest (1926)
* The American (1927)

Short films|

* The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
* The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
* Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
* Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
* The Automobile Thieves (1906)
* The Haunted Hotel (1907)
* A Curious Dream (1907)
* Macbeth (1908)
* Romeo and Juliet (1908)
* Antony and Cleopatra (1908)
* Oliver Twist (1909)
* Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
* Les Misérables (1909)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)

Related|

* Vitagraph Studios
* Paula Blackton (wife)
* Marian Constance Blackton (daughter)

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Companies and studios

| Active|

| Majors|

| NBCUniversal|

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Warner Bros.|

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Sony Pictures|

* Aniplex of America
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* Tau Films
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* The Kerner Entertainment Company
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* Toei Animation Inc.
* United Plankton Pictures
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* Wild Canary Animation
* World Events Productions
* Worker Studio
* WWE Studios
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Former|

* 4Kids Entertainment
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* Adelaide Productions
* Adventure Cartoon Productions
* Allspark
* Amblimation
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* Animation Lab
* Animation Magic
* Blue Sky Studios
* BVS Entertainment
* Cartoon Pizza
* Chorion
* Circle 7 Animation
* Cookie Jar
* Crest Animation Productions
* Curious Pictures
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* DIC Entertainment
* Disneytoon Studios
* DNA Productions
* Famous Studios
* Filmation
* Fleischer Studios
* Format Films
* Fox Animation Studios
* Frederator Films
* Golden Films
* Hanna-Barbera
* HIT Entertainment
* Jetlag Productions
* Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions!
* Kroyer Films
* Laugh-O-Gram Studio
* Little Airplane Productions
* Marvel Productions
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
* MGM Animation/Visual Arts
* MGM Cartoons
* Mirari Films
* MoonScoop
* O Entertainment
* Omation Animation Studio
* Pacific Data Images
* PorchLight Entertainment
* Prana Studios
* Radical Axis
* Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment
* Rhythm and Hues Studios
* Rooster Teeth
* Ruby-Spears
* Screen Gems
* Skellington Productions
* Soup2Nuts
* Spümcø
* Storyboard, Inc./Hubley Studios
* Sullivan Bluth Studios
* Sunbow Entertainment
* Terrytoons
* Total Television
* United Productions of America
* Van Beuren Studios
* Walter Lantz Productions
* Warner Bros. Cartoons
* Wētā FX
* Wildbrain Entertainment
* Will Vinton Studios
* Zodiac Entertainment

Industry associations

* The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839
* ASIFA-Hollywood

Other topics

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History|

* Silent era
* Golden age
* World War II
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Related|

* Animated sitcom
* American comics
* History of American comics
* Tijuana bible
* Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
* Flash animation
* Labor strikes
* Fleischer Studios (1937)
* Disney (1941)
* Multiple studios (1982)

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