<P> 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 . </P> <P> In the cartoon, animated hand - drawn scenes appear on a chalkboard, such as 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> The film moves at 20 frames per second . </P>

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