The Humpty Dumpty Circus

Acrobats, Animals

The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats credits this as "the first animated film using the stop-motion technique to give the illusion of movement to inanimate objects." It states that Albert E. Smith conceived the idea, borrowing his young daughter's toy circus and shooting the acrobats and animals in barely changed positions a frame at a time. However, another source quotes James Stuart Blackton as saying that he originated the idea for this film, using his own little daughter's set of toy wooden circus performers and animals!

Silent film.

This film no longer exists- only documentary evidence remains of this film.