Fantasmagorie
1908·2 min·FR
Director: Émile Cohl
AnimationComedy
The first fully animated film, and one of the most joyfully anarchic things ever drawn. Émile Cohl's stick figure materializes on screen and immediately starts causing mayhem — morphing into shapes, swallowing objects, collapsing and reassembling in a stream-of-consciousness delirium that anticipates everything from Tex Avery to Adult Swim. Each of its roughly 700 drawings was photographed individually, and the result is a minute and a half of pure, unrestrained imagination. Cohl couldn't have known he was inventing an art form, but that's exactly what happened on this animator's desk in Paris.
The first fully animated film, and one of the most joyfully anarchic things ever drawn. Émile Cohl's stick figure materializes on screen and immediately starts causing mayhem — morphing into shapes, swallowing objects, collapsing and reassembling in a stream-of-consciousness delirium that anticipates everything from Tex Avery to Adult Swim. Each of its roughly 700 drawings was photographed individually, and the result is a minute and a half of pure, unrestrained imagination. Cohl couldn't have known he was inventing an art form, but that's exactly what happened on this animator's desk in Paris.
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