Fantasmagorie (1908)

Directed by

Émile Cohl

Genre

comedy film, silent film, children's film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 152 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A stick figure and other simple shapes undergo a series of surreal transformations. It is an early experiment in hand drawn animation from 1908.

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What happens

Fantasmagorie (also called 'A Fantasy') is a 1908 French animated short film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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