The Enchanted Drawing

American animation owes its beginnings to J. Stuart Blackton, a British filmmaker who created the first animated film in America. Before creating cartoons, Blackton was a vaudeville performer known as "The Komikal Kartoonist." In his act, he drew "lightning sketches" or high-speed drawings. In 1895, he met Thomas Edison. Can you guess what this meeting with the famous inventor inspired him to do?

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[DarkKrad14]

Visiual effects of the 1900's.

Awesome

[JourneyTraveler]

Right. And I suppose you could explain how CGI could have created this when there wasn't a C in existence yet?

[Avvido]

I can't forget something I never knew. :/

[EtceteraCraft]

You're forgetting that this was the first animation that was EVER done. Nobody had thought to do anything like this before. Do you know why it took us so long to, say, invent the wheel? You just take a circle and put it on something that rotates and you're done, why is that so difficult? It was because we had never even THOUGHT about doing that before then. At the time, this video was creative enough to form the basis of a whole new art form.

[Avvido]

All he had to do was stop and start the camera, what would 100 years have changed?

[Camille Dunning]

Like if you're watching this 112 yrs after this came out, dislike if you're going to watch this 113 years from then

[yanivp1]

I like this is actually good.

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[Miguel Tlachi]

Tfvjj

[blaxicat2005]

this is awesome

[Rarkaful]

Wow amazing 100 years ago wow

[BigDogDj1]

Point is he figured out how to do this over 100 years ago.