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Production Co.: Dawley Productions. Director: Tony Sarg. Photographer/Editor: Herbert M. Dawley. Writers/Animators: Tony Sarg and Herbert M. Dawley.
The Original Movie is a satire about the birth of movie making whose
shadowgraph style harks back to the origins of cinema in magic-lantern entertainments. “This is the way everyone believes motion pictures were first made,” the cartoon’s first intertitle jokes about Eadweard Muybridge’s pre-cinematic 1870s experiments photographing horses in motion.
The Original Movie is a satire about the birth of movie making whose
shadowgraph style harks back to the origins of cinema in magic-lantern entertainments. “This is the way everyone believes motion pictures were first made,” the cartoon’s first intertitle jokes about Eadweard Muybridge’s pre-cinematic 1870s experiments photographing horses in motion.