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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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