The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
- Original title
- Humpty Dumpty Circus
- Directed by
- Albert E. Smith
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 4 min
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 1.5 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This lost short film from 1898 shows a circus made of wooden toys come to life using stop motion trick photography. It was one of the earliest attempts at stop motion animation in cinema.
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What happens
The Humpty Dumpty Circus is a lost short stop-motion trick film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, the Anglo-American founders of Vitagraph Studios. There are no known surviving copies. It would have been the first stop motion animation by the animator J. Stuart Blackton. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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