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Fantasmagorie

Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation

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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

Behind the camera

Director

Émile Cohl

Produced in

France

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Release dates

  • FranceFR

    • Premiere17 Aug 1908

Frequently asked questions

Fantasmagorie was released on 17 August 1908.

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  • B

    BarbaGianni

    8/1/2026

    9/10

    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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