The Enchanted Drawing 1900

This allowed animation to flourish and show people things that seemed impossible.
Here is the first filmed animation by James Stuart Blackton born on who started off his career as a reporter and a artist for the new york evening world newspaper. He was sent to interview Thomas Edison and his creation of the vitoscope.
He then went on to animate The enchanted drawing.
I feel the idea of using trickery along with animation would have been something wondrous to behold when first viewed. The public would have most probably been uneducated on how the principles of animation worked and there for would behold the cinematic as a type of magic trick.
The skills in which J.S.Blackton sinked his movements along with the change of expression of his animated character are acceptably convincing today, so back in the early 1900ds viewers would have been amazed. I feel this is a great achievement and stepping stone for the possibilities of animation.