The Original Movie

Name: The Original Movie
Director: Tony Sarg
Genre: Animation
Released: 1922

1922 Animation Directed by Tony Sarg

About The Original Movie

A prehistoric writer sells his story to a film company. The company cuts it to pieces and turns it into a stone-age picture. Tony Sarg made the short as a silhouette cartoon.

Cast & crew

Tony Sarg Director

More about The Original Movie

Sarg directed the animated short in 1922. The Academy Film Archive preserved it in 2010.

Themes

A writer who sells his story
A film company that wrecks it
stone age
silhouette
Tony Sarg
screenplay

Preservation

Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Notes

The joke is a script ruined in production, set in the stone age.
No cast is billed. The figures are cut-outs.
The Academy preservation date is 2010.

Scenes

The company turns the writer's story into a stone-age movie.

Also available

Academy Film Archive