"The Bear's Tale" (1940)
So "estimated reading time" was a thing even back in 1940? The US wasn't in the war yet so it's not a war-time efficiency measure...
Great comments on the rigging. Will have to go back and study it in more detail...
...but in the meantime here is what Rob taught me yesterday.
I used 4 frame holds on the incremental increases in opacity to approximate the jerkiness of time lapse videos.
timelapse.mp4