Fantasmagorie (Émile Cohl)

One of the earliest examples of traditional 'hand drawn' animation, created by Emile Cohl in 1908. Displayed using the 'magic lantern' device. The animation is very basic, hand drawn with 'traditional animation' and personally I find it hard to follow what is going on. The whole piece is very stylised and almost 'modern' looking. Despite being very simple and very hard to follow, I really enjoy the playful nature to this piece and the quirkiness to it's own style.

Émile Cohl worked on this piece between February and May of 1908 and all together drew an estimated 700 frames all together.