Chapter 1: Moving Pictures

## Chapter One: Moving Pictures

Chapter One's Promotional Thumbnail

**Bendy 2D: Chapter One** was originally released on June 12th, 2017 by the original founder Catster, otherwise known as KCG456 at the time. It was a rather short chapter during this point in time and had a total of less than 20 rooms with no key details other than the ink machine in one room, collecting items in another room and going back to the ink machine to find yet another room with a jumpscare shortly thereafter. The early form (or prototype chapter as mentioned by Sunnehboiofficial) of the chapter by Catster took a total of less the 3 minutes to complete in terms of gameplay and didn't have much to offer in terms of story and wasn't as polished.

Moving Pictures stayed primarily the same until around 2019 when KCG456 planned a survival mode in an revival effort to bring more players to her game, but the new update never went according to plan and was eventually scrapped and shelved in 2019 due to motivational issues on Catster's behalf.

In 2022, Catster "Passed the torch" to Sunneh Boi Official, which he assumed the title creative director of Bendy and the Ink Machine 2D. Sunnehboiofficial (otherwise known as just Sunneh), managed to not only repair chapter one but make it into something completely more detailed and atmospheric compared to it's 2017 counterpart, although not getting as much attention from the 2017 version, which is currently still playable and up on the scratch website as of December 2nd, 2023.

## PLOT SUMMARY

Moving Pictures starts with henry driving from downtown New York City, in presumably the 1970s and arrives in his car in front of the infamous and now seemingly abandoned and left to rot Joey Drew animation studios building complex. From this point the player gains control of Henry and must enter the building's main entrance. The player now must proceed through several rooms. On the way to find the ink machine room, there is an audio log recording from wally franks, the main janitorial employee of the studio, his log is on the table just before the hallway with papers on the ground.

The player then must go through a somewhat 4-5 minute unskippable cutscene of the ink machine rising from the abyss below, shortly after collecting to dry cells from the shelves nearby. Once the machine reaches the highest it can go, Henry must now go into the far top room after leaving the ink machine room and collect a total of 6 items: (in order) a gear, a book, a doll, an ink jar, a record, and finally a wrench. Then the player must take henry to the farthest right room and go past the grim and dark looking Boris clone room and then go past that room and enter the ink pressure room, then henry is required flip the switch, then the lights dim, and the distant sound of ink running through pipes inside the walls, then all of a sudden, the jumpscare occurs, scaring the player as the room floods rather quickly with ink.

Henry then wakes up in an ink filled room far down below the previous room he was just in, and now must drain a total of 2 ink valves while traversing down a flight of stairs. Eventually after going down the stairwell, he is met with his first weapon, a rusty and well used axe, which is sitting on a table nearby. Then he must walk thru a short hallway, then suddenly, faint whispers can be heard and the player then enters a small room with coffins and a large pentagram surrounded by dimly lit candles. Henry then is required to go to the centre of the pentagram and then the 1st chapter concludes.

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**The story continues in the next chapter:**  Chapter 2: The Slaughtered Songs

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## TRIVIA

1. Catster made the prototype first chapter in only 1 whole day.
2. Sunneh Boi Official has quietly mentioned that Chapter One was meant to be a bit longer in the 2023 version of the game. There was meant to be a couple more rooms as well as the ink footprints usually seen in the original chapter one by KindlyBeast in their remastered update.
3. Chapter One's survival mode was originally intended to bring people back as well as give the game some more replayability but the reason it was scrapped is still unclear.
4. The prototype version (2017 version) did not have audio logs of any kind, they weren't even added till the 2023 version when Sunneh found voice actors to take the role.
5. Wally Franks in chapter one's 2022 audio log was actually voiced by Sunnehboiofficial, but was later given it's own voice actor to take his place.