New York Herald comic-strip animator Winsor McCay (and James Stuart Blackton) debuted his first cartoon, Little Nemo (with 4,000 hand-drawn cels, and hand-colored). Two of the film's ten minutes were animated. The semi-autobiographical film brought to life his cartoon characters from his popular comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland (also titled In the Land of Wonderful Dreams in the Hearst papers).