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2 March 1907 (USA)
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Seven toy teddy bears of varying sizes suddenly come to life, getting in all sorts of merry misadventures. full summary | add synopsis
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840 hours of dedicated workmanship!
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13 min (2004 National Film Preservation Foundation print)
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One of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. This film has a running time of 13 minutes, an added piano music score.and is preserved by the Library of Congress (from the Richard Marshall collection, with supplementary portions).
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Featured in Edison: The Invention of the Movies (2005) (V)
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I had the good fortune some fifteen years ago to catch a British television documentary (the name of which escapes me now) the subject matter of which was the pioneering years of animation. During the course of the programme were shown several frames from this early film. Whilst obviously jerky and completely devoid of modern animation techniques, I was particularly impressed by the innovation used here by Ed Porter.
Actually produced in 1906 and following on from the critical success of another chalk-board animation that same year, THE HUMOROUS PHASES OF FUNNY FACES, directed by Stuart Blackton, THE TEDDY BEARS was in fact a stop-frame production, using real stuffed teddy bears! In this respect, Porter was creating true "animation" but not a cartoon! It was in hindsight, the absolute ancestor of today's "Claymation." It took Ed Porter 56 hours work to complete just one minute of "moving" film.
Perhaps when viewing today such spectacular computer-generated animation as the recent DINOSAUR, the product of armies of programmers, artists and technical designers, you might spare a thought for pioneers like Ed Porter who sat alone in their studio crafting the framework for future generations with agonising slowness, but dedication.