Fantasmagorie

1908 • 0h 2m • Animation, Comedy

6.6(161 votes)

Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation

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.

Director

Émile Cohl

Writers

Émile Cohl

Status

Released