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?

[BigDogDj1]

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

[BishtrainerTai16]

seamless transaction with the wine bottle drawing to a real wine bottle. i would have shat massive bricks back then.

[murielsartre]

Look up Charles-Émile Reynaud. He started his animation experiments in 1878.



[imanbell]

excellent movie, wow

[jeapiat]

Yes, Azwel I believe you...

[MythicAzurel]

0:56

[NicolajJensen]

This is actually pretty cool, and there's some impressive effects too. Nice find!

[azwel]

That was cool and all, but I can do that in one evening .... D:

[FunnyFaceKing]

Edison was American, from New Jersey. Blackton was British.

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

I like how ppl think that disney invented animated drawings, funny seeing how he wasn't born till the 5th of Dec 1901..... hmmm.....? btw J.Swan invented the incandescent light,not edison