Fantasmagorie: The First Animated Film

in Amazon Kindle, Art, Film | December 23rd, 2010 2 Comments

Today, we’re adding to our collection of Free Online Movies a great little film by Emile Cohl, otherwise known as “The Father of the Animated Cartoon.” Made in 1908, Fantasmagorie stitched together 700 drawings, each double-exposed, creating the first fully animated film. Cohl made over 250 films between 1908 and 1923, of which 37 survive in film archives. And several – Le cauchemar de Fantoche (1908) and The Hasher’s Delirium (1910) – appear right here on YouTube.

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  1. Fox says . . . | July 2, 2011 / 4:27 pm

    Wow. And the moral of the story is…don’t do drugs!

    LOL, no but seriously, for it’s time that’s amazing!

  2. mahjongg tiles says . . . | October 9, 2011 / 9:13 pm

    You’re totally correct on this piece

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