The Humpty Dumpty Circus
| The Humpty Dumpty Circus | |
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| Directed by | J. Stuart Blackton |
| Produced by | Albert E. Smith |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent |
The Humpty Dumpty Circus is an animated short film made in 1898 by director and producer J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, the Anglo-American founders of Vitagraph Studios. The short was the first American film to use the stop-motion technique,[1][2] and featured a circus with acrobats and animals in motion. According to Smith, they used his daughter's set of small circus dolls, which had jointed limbs so they could be balanced in place.[3] Unfortunately, the film now only exists as still images.
References
- ↑ Ken A. Priebe, The Art of Stop-Motion Animation, Boston, Massachusetts: Thomson Course Technology PTR, 2007, ISBN 9781598632453, p. 9
- ↑ Nichola Dobson, The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 2009, ISBN 9780810876231, p. xxiv
- ↑ Paul Wells, Understanding Animation, London/New York: Routledge, 1998, ISBN 9780415115964, n.p.
External links
- The Humpty Dumpty Circus at the Internet Movie Database
- Information on bcdb.com
- Albert E. Smith & J. Stuart Blackton, The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
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