Dolly’s_Toys
Dolly's Toys
1901 film by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper
Dolly’s Toys was a 1901 British trick film, directed by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. It may have used stop-motion animation, or a variant of the stop-action technique previously used by Walter R. Booth. Cooper would start producing animated films in 1904, starting with The Enchanted Toymaker. [1]
Melbourne-Cooper directed the 1908 film His Dreams of Toyland, where toys were brought to life through use of stop-motion animation. Dolly's Toys is a lost film, but if featured a similar plot. This has fueled speculation that it was an early animated film by Melbourne-Cooper. But it may have instead used techniques pioneered by Walter R. Booth in Dreamland Adventures (1907), the techniques of stop-action and double exposure. [2]