

Fantasmagorie
Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation
An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.
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- black and white
- european animation
- silent cinema
- experimental
- animation
- absurd
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- Premiere17 Aug 1908
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Fantasmagorie was released on 17 August 1908.
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1- B9/10
BarbaGianni
8/1/2026
Imagine for a moment what it meant for people at the time to see this.\ Today, to our eyes this film may seem like a mere short without value, lasting a tik tok video; but for those who crossed the threshold of the cinema more than a century ago to see these two minutes of animated images, this film represented the progress; images that move with a life of their own. Something that until recently was unthinkable was…
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