Billed as the first display of moving cartoons, Windsor McKay's film delivers on its promise. It starts as a live-action film with McKay announcing to his artist collegues his intentions to which they laugh heartily, but this does not deter Windsor, and soon enough we're watching a cartoon. Windsor tells his friends that he will make four thousand drawings that will move within the month. He has a shitload of ink and drawing paper delivered for the long road ahead...