The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog is a 1905 silent short comedy film directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. The five-and-a-half minute film was an adaptation of a popular
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How Jones Lost His Roll
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How Jones Lost His Roll is a 1905 silent short comedy film directed by Edwin S. Porter. The movie was popular for its clever use of animated title cards — the first example of stop-motion animation in
The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog
…illustrating the character's annoying flaws. The animated letters sequence is an extension of a technique that Porter had used two months earlier in How Jones Lost His Roll. These films introduced "single-frame filming", in which the camera was cranked to expose one frame of film at a time. This soon became the standard…
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An example of the stop-motion titles, spelling out "He proposed a friendly game of cards".