The enchanted drawing / - vaudeville film

"Upon a large sheet of white paper a cartoonist is seen at work rapidly sketching the portrait of an elderly gentleman of most comical feature and expression. After completing the likeness the artist rapidly draws on the paper a clever sketch of a bottle of wine and a goblet, and then, to the surprise of all, actually removes them from the paper on which they were drawn and pours actual wine out of the bottle into a real glass. Surprising effects quickly follow after this; and the numerous changes of expression which flit over the face in the sketch cause a vast amount of amusement and at the same time give a splendid illustration of the caricaturist's art. 100 feet"--Edison films catalog.
D21656 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 16Nov1900; D21656.
Performer: J. Stuart Blackton.
Camera, Albert E. Smith.
Duration: 1:26 at 18 fps.
Filmed in September to early November 1900, on Vitagraph's rooftop studio in New York, New York.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1592) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation, 1900-1921; McIntire, J. Silent animated films at the Library of Congress, 1995; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 641; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 90; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 81 [MI].
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5272 to FZA 2680.