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The film was created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.It was made up of 700 drawings, each of which was exposed twice (animated "on twos"), leading to a running time of almost two minutes.
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Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/ p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a ...
References: Catalogue of (modern) paintings and sculpture in the collection of Charles T. Yerkes, esq., New York, 52 ; Jean Léon Gérômeː Catalogue raisonné, 2000 (2nd edition), 0385
The Hand Refrains, 2nd Series, H.98.7 cm x W.76.3 cm (1878). In this second picture, Pygmalion's perfect woman is revealed. Playing God, he has created woman and now stands back to admire her, holding the cold chisel against his face as though scared to touch his creation again.
Spy vs. Spy is a wordless comic strip published in Mad magazine. It features two agents involved in stereotypical and comical espionage activities. One is dressed in white, and the other in black, but they are otherwise identical, and are particularly known for their long, beaklike heads and their white pupils and black sclera.