FEATURE FILM

Fantasmagorie

6.6/10
TMDB161 votes
1908Original: French2 min

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.

Genres: Animation, Comedy
Cast: Not available

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About Fantasmagorie

Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation

Fantasmagorie (1908) is a film in the animation, comedy genres. Directed by Émile Cohl.

Released
1908-08-17
Original language
French
Runtime
2 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
France
Production companies
Société des Etablissements Gaumont (FR)
Directors
Émile Cohl
Writers
Émile Cohl

Audience reviews

6.6/10 from 161 TMDB votes. Ratings and reviews are supplied by TMDB. Reviews are attributed to their original authors.

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TMDB member review

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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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 their eyes. There are so many pages of history behind this film and so many blank pages that have yet to be filled.\ In short, this is not just any animated short, but the work of those who have had the tenacity and the ardor to do something that no one else has done before, to do the 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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