USA, 1906
3m
35mm film, black and white, 1.33:1
silent
An American animated fantasy film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. In his book Anime: A History, Jonathan Clements writes that “the first mention of something that appears to have been a cartoon in a Japanese cinema is an otherwise unidentified film with the Japanese title Kimyō-naru Bōrudo (The Board Becomes Strange), shown at Tokyo's Yachiyo-kan theatre on 2 August 1907, which may have been a screening of Blackton's Humorous Phases of Funny Faces“, citing as his source Haraguchi Masahiro's book Animage Pocket Data Notes (p.16).
Plot Summary
A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard that come to life.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: J. Stuart Blackton
Vitagraph Company of America
Cast
J. Stuart Blackton
Links
Extracts included in
Animated Century (2003)
Disneyland: The Story of the Animated Drawing (1955)
References
Books
- Anime: A History by Jonathan Clements p. 23 – note
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.208 – credits
