Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

[1][2] In the cartoon, animated hand-drawn scenes appear on a chalkboard, including a clown playing with a hat and a dog jumping through a hoop.

In the beginning, though, the cartoonist's hands are included, too, as he draws the first several lines on the chalkboard in standard live action.

From there, the stop-motion technique is used to show what appears to be drawings completing—and then moving—by themselves with no artist on screen.

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