The Hand of the Artist (1906)

Directed by

Walter R. Booth

Genre

silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2 min

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A director's hand brings photographs of a young man and woman to life. Each sequence ends with the images being crumpled up.

playfulwhimsicalshortexperimentalanimatedearlysilenttrick

What happens

The Hand of the Artist is a 1906 British short silent trick film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring the director's hand bringing to life photographic images of a young man and woman only for each sequence to end in them being crumpled up. The film features stop-action substitution to achieve its effect and has erroneously been described as the first British animated film. The film survives as part of the Corrick Collection of the Corrick family entertainers who toured Australia and the world between 1901 and 1914. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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