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Movie poster for Fantasmagorie (1908)

Fantasmagorie

“Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation”

1908
2m
Director: Émile Cohl
Writer: Émile Cohl

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.

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