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Director: Wallace Carlson
Release date: September 6, 1919
Stars: Dreamy Dud, Wallace Carlson, John Randolph Bray
Rating: ★★★★
Review:

Young Wallace Carlson parodies his own work in a short funny film starring himself.

If anything the film shows that animating a cartoon is a lot of work. Most telling is the scene in which Carlson photographs a huge pile of animation drawings. The intertitle ’48 hrs later… ‘ says it all.

The cartoon itself, ‘Dreamy Dud’, which Carlson plays to an unimpressed John Randolph Bray , is not half as funny as the live action sequences, and only demonstrates that Carlson belongs to the lesser gods of animation. His animation style is crude and formulaic, with little sense of timing.

Watch ‘How Animated Cartoons Are Made’ yourself and tell me what you think:

‘How Animated Cartoons Are Made’ is available on the Blu-Ray-DVD combo ‘Cartoon Roots: The Bray Studios Animation Pioneers’