Onesime, Clock-Maker (1912)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Onesime has just inherited a large fortune but he can't get the money for twenty years so he sets the "main clock" to move faster so that days pass in fifteen minutes. This is certainly a gimmick film with the gimmick being the camera under cranked to deliver a higher speed. There's some interesting stop-animation type effects that are the main reason to view this.

Winsor McCay and His Animated Pictures (1911)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Famed cartoonist Winsor McCay is laughed at by friends when he plans to turn his comics into moving pictures. We first see him drawing the picture and then at the end we see them moving. The moving animation is very entertaining but the story wrapped around it is rather boring, although I guess it's basically a set-up.