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. Content 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 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 Fantasmagorie The Enchanted Drawing History of animation References External links Humorous Phases of Funny Faces at the Library of Congress 1906 films 1906 short films 1906 animated films Animated comedy films 1900s animated short films American black-and-white films American silent short films Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton 1906 comedy films Vitagraph Studios short films Silent American comedy films Articles containing video clips American comedy short films 1900s American films