The Enchanted Drawing
1900 · 2 min · US
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton
J. Stuart Blackton, 1900, Vitagraph: a sketch artist draws a bottle, a hat, a cigar, and lifts them off the paper. Two minutes. Stop-motion and substitution, the cartoon as a magic act before there were cartoons. Blackton, a newspaper illustrator, inventing the American trick film by treating a chalkboard as Méliès treated a stage. The drawing is enchanted because the cut is.
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