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Fantasmagorie
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.
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Fantasmagorie Émile Cohl, 1908
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- Aug 17, 1908
- 2m
- No Language
- Émile Cohl
- Émile Cohl, Émile Cohl
- Released
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