American Decades
"Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"
Cartoon
By: J. Stuart Blackton
Date: April 6, 1906
Source: Blackton, J. Stuart, producer and animator. "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces." Vitagraph, 1906. Available online at Origins of American Animation, Library of Congress; http://www.americaslibrary.gov/sh/animation/sh_animation_bl... ; website home page: http://www.americaslibrary.gov (accessed May 27, 2003).
About the Author: Born in Sheffield, England, James Stuart Blackton (1875–1941) moved to the United States in 1886, where Thomas Edison's invitation to participate in a film, "Blackton, the Evening World Cartoonist" (1896), changed his life. By the end of the next year, Blackton had formed the Vitagraph Company for producing his own motion pictures. "The Enchanted Drawing" (1900) and...
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- News Coverage of Natural Disasters
- "'Tabloid Journalism': Its Causes and Effects"
- Political Cartoons Critical of U.S. Imperialism
- Did the New York Journal Kill President McKinley?
- Our National Parks
- "American Progress in Habana"
- The Great Train Robbery
- "The College of Journalism"
- The Shame of the Cities
- "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"
- "The Man with the Muck Rake"
- The Outlook and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Jungle
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
