What was the first cartoon in the world?

What is "humor of a funny face"? This short film directed by J. Stuart Blackton premiered in the United States on April 6th, 1906. This film is recognized by animation historians as the first animated film recorded on standard film in the world. Among them, frame-by-frame shooting, paper-cut animation, real-life shooting and other animation technologies are used.

The film author Blackton's exploration of "frame-by-frame shooting" technology has made a key contribution to animation art and film special effects art, and Blackton is also a pioneer of film special effects. This film is roughly divided into two parts. The first part is the process of Blackton drawing on the blackboard with chalk, which can be subdivided into two groups;

One group is a little humor between a man and a woman. The man disappears after smoking the lady next to him. The second group was a gentleman playing with an umbrella, then took off his hat and disappeared, becoming a man and a woman again. The second part is the animation part of paper-cutting. A clown is juggling, and a puppy is jumping next to him.

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Animation history—

1824, the British Peter Mark Roger first discovered the phenomenon of visual persistence.

1824, an Englishman, John A. Parris, invented the "magic CD" (or photo CD). Draw a bird on one side of the disc and an empty cage on the other. When the disc rotates, the bird appears in the cage.

1832, Belgian Joseph Prato put the painted pictures on the disc of a machine in sequence, and the disc can be rotated by the machine. This machine also has an observation window to observe the effect of moving pictures. Driven by the machine, the disc rotates at a low speed. The pictures on the CD also rotate with the CD. From the observation window, the picture seems to be moving, forming a moving picture, which is the embryonic form of the initial animation.

1906, USA? J. Stuart Blackton made a film close to the concept of modern animation, called Humor of Funny Face, which is considered as the first cartoon in the world.

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