Cameraless animation is an animation technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock, as opposed to any other form of animation where the images or objects are photographed frame by frame with animation camera. Camera-less animation requires a lot of working time and it yields relatively little viewing time.

There are two basic techniques or methods to produce animation directly on film. Blank film stock and the other one with black film. On blank film the artist can draw,stamp or even glue objects. Black film can be scratched,etched sanded or punched. Artists can use many tools and combine techniques endlessly. Frame borders may be observed or completely ignored, found footage may be included, any existing image maybe distorted by mechanical or chemical means. A third method takes place in a darkroom, using unexposed film that is exposed by frame.The artists places objects onto the fresh stock and then uses a small light beam to create synthetic sound as well as images by drawing  otherwise reproducing forms in the soundtrack area.

There would be different forms formats of these artwork as well. Large formats such as 70 or 35mm film may be preferred for their relatively larger working are, but direct animation is done on 16 mm or even Super8 mm film as well.

Silent speed,. The Universal speed for 16mm sound films is 24 second frames per second.This is an international standard. It is the slowest speed at which a film’s sound track can move and still generate reproducible sound throughout the projector’s amplification system. But many 16mm Projectors are equipped with a switch that allows them to operate at a silent speed of 18 frames per second. At this slower speed our persistence of vision still works, so that visual continuity is maintained. When you you project your caemraless film at silent speed, it takes longer going through the machine and hence it takes longer to see.