Fantasmagorie by Émile Cohl

[MDthornton83]

This is about a century old, and yet its fascinating.

[CaptainSiberia]

The cards at the beginning and end take up about half of the running time.

[pucksterz12]

Pretty friggin creative for it's time.

[mrbubetube]

great, now let's see the first porn film ever made

[Floppy98x42]

That is a great animation! Old animations seem to come out great,

[ArTiStGrL232]

James Stuart Blackton's "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" is the first animation (1906) but it was done on chalkboard. This cartoon by Emile Cohl is the first animation done using drawings on paper.

[2525trousduk]

go look for this movie on mubi.com. there is a better and free version, the music is worth it.

[TheRockman98]

alguém entendeu alguma coisa?

[poetaed]

@TheRockman98 é o primeiro desenho, não é preciso entender!

[TheTKC]

I thought Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by James Stuart Blackton was made before this. I read that it was made in 1906

[BaaBaaFilms]

I think the slightly bad quality is nice because it enhances the surreal feeling of the video.

[soccerplayingdrummer]

just saying, but 2 years earlier than this, J. Stuart Blackton made the VERY 1st animated cartoon. Its called "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"

Search this and this is the VERY first...

[machtrebel]

I can watch this over and over again

[trence5]

Thanx alot for posting this vid. I'm taking a history of animation course and I believe the information you listed will help me out alot.

thank you

[MannenStudios]

Amazing! Keep up the good work ROCKETBOOM!

[ROCKETBOOM]

Glad to hear it!

[Y2KExtacy]

How come there is no music? =(

[ROCKETBOOM]

it's a silent film - but feel free to grab an old casio keyboard and hit the demo button for a rockin' soundtrack!

[YouCantDoThatHere]

lmao :D

[astra808cafelatino]

increible

[nukefluke]

Brilliant for 1908.

[VantekHG]

Brilliant for 2009.

[FunkyFrancek77]

You'd think that this was done by a young person, but the guy was 51 when he did this

[CirqueDuCloud]

Awesome! Yes, definitely what I like to see from ROCKETBOOM.

Obscure and surprisingly relevant facts from everywhere in our world. LOL

[MattAyroli]

that was amazing. this is the kind of videos i like rocketboom to post.

[SPowner2008]

wat

[BigLittlePlanet]

holy makaroni

[m0r1arty]

Never knew that - France sis a lot for animation by the looks of it. The Lumiere brothers has some funky pictures of birds flying and horses galloping and now this guy.

Thanks RB!

[Tanru2000]

Someone should clean up the footage. Wouldn't take too long - I guess!?!

[Wyrmshadow]

WOW, I thought the first animated movie was of a Brontosaurus walking and eating, 1914, this is much earlier and even more primative.

[BigAndTall666]

Life is too short for french movies, now that´s a truth!!! :-/

[aelffin]

Interesting that Cohl recognized many things that are only possible with animation. Prior to modern special effects, it was nearly impossible to show this range of surreal transformations using conventional techniques--I particularly liked the sequence where the figure gets sucked into a champagne bottle, which subsequently blooms into a flower. Of course all of this was possible in short form with flip-book animations before the advent of film.

Is an ILM remake too much to hope for?

[piercinglight]

This looks like it should be a frank zappa music video

[artvandelay13]

i guess i'll never understand french cinema...

[mergatroidal]

The cowboy with the oversized cowboy hat jumps from the horse and runs towards the camera. The screen goes black. The white lettered words, "Meanwhile, back at the ranch ..." appear. The scene with another cowboy inside a room in conversation with a female in petticoat ...

We've come a long way.

[speakify]

Awesome

[Tetsiou]

We've come a long way

[eldukedrino]

amazing considering the times it was made..

brilliant even by today standards

[murdockqotsa]

Brilliant?

How so?

I agree that considering the times, it was a very creative, innovative, and brilliant idea. But... by today's standards??

C'mon now....

[MidnightRayn]

by todays standards this is done all the time and there are many youtube videos like this and they get hundreds of thousands of views. that being said I have better things to do then what them... again.

[JonnyBrotherJr]

That was fairly good.

[Persiana]

On the contrary. They've told a few memes wrong, and they're not an authority, the just make profit with memes.

[soccermafia89]

I've seen better animations done on those post-it notes.

[JMan5May]

garbage. you said garage.

[Silentil]

I remember when rocketboom used to be funny >_>

[Kiki756]

That was really interesting! :]

[kxsteve]

Intresting  Thanks

[azulo65]

Informative and entertaining :D

[hvymtlrocks]

FlindersSharp got first comment but was removed

[Svankmajer]

Huh? There's tons of later abstract cartoons made after this.

[amath12345]

that's the best high I've had in a while :P

[dunndudebemelol]

very intresting! great idea and very realy in films history

[dunndudebemelol]

Final Fantasy had a fully animated film?

[AFnord]

Two actually

[JonnoStrife]

wow that wasdifferent.....

[TheZarbodShow]

I heard he just used Flash to do the animation.

[lillsecrets]

that was pretty interesting. :D

[ZeroExperiment]

I am very proud to say that I was, technically, the first person to have a comment on this here video. Good day old chap.

Nice video, Rocketboom :D

[ZeroExperiment]

Baah, never mind... I didn't see Raptor's comment....

[theboredone]

That was quite the blunder, I say. Cheerio!