Went to a movie at the Drafthouse last night and they showed this very old stop motion animation clip as part of the pre-show. I assume they did wire-work on the frames that involved the heavy furniture going up the stairs, as well as raising things up to the walls, but I couldn’t see the wires. It’s an extremely impressive film, especially given the state of photography/filmography in 1910. It was so marvelous that I had to look it up and share it with y’all. Enjoy!
I’ve seen either this one or the cohn filmreferred to.
Have you seen Humorous Phases of Funny Faces? It predates the Moving company by four years.
There are a lot of independent animators from those early years. Winsor McCay (whose own *Little Nemo** came out in 1911, and his more famous *Gertie the Dinosaur* in 1914) essentially did the "Humorous Phases" thing as a live act -- drawing and erasing and redrawing faces so rapidly during one of his "chalk talks" that it was about as close to animation as you could get without a camera.*Little Nemo was also hand-colored, making it possibly the earliest color cartoon. I have a restored version with the coloring, and it’s gorgeous.
[nitpicker]The “Automatic Moving Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.” has its mail delivered to its office by a French postman and marks its moving truck in French? 
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Ooh, I love early stop motion.
Try this one: The Cameraman’s Revenge, from 1912. Starring real bugs! Well, real dead bugs anyway.