Fantasmagorie

Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation

Fantasmagorie — Plot

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
• August 17, 1908
• Runtime
• 2 min
• Genres
• Animation, Comedy
• Director
• Émile Cohl