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Fantasmagorie

Fantasmagorie

★ 6,6 /10 (160 Votes)
1908 FR 2 min

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.

Release date

17/08/1908

Votes

160

Popularity

1.4

Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation

Genres

Status

Released

Language

FR

Runtime

2 min

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BarbaGianni

BarbaGianni

2026-08-01

⭐ 9

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 an…

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