Fantasmagorie (1908)

Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation

• Animation
• Comedy

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.

Rating

6.6 / 10 (161 votes)

Release date

August 17, 1908

Runtime

2m

Language

French

Director

Émile Cohl

Status

Released