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Fantasmagorie (1908)

August 17, 1908 (FR) Animation, Comedy • 2m

Overview

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.

Director

Émile Cohl

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BarbaGianni

⭐ 9/10

August 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 now becoming reality before t… read the rest.

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FR

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