Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (1908)

                                  

An animated film by French caricaturist, cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl. It is one of the 
earliest examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many film historians to be the very first animated cartoon. Despite appearances the animation is not created on a blackboard but rather on paper, the blackboard effect achieved by shooting each of the 700 drawings onto negative film. The title is a reference to the “fantasmograph”, a mid-19th century variant of the magic lantern that projected ghostly images on to surrounding walls.

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