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Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie 1908

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Émile Cohl created Fantasmagorie in 1908.

To make this film, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings. In 1908, chalkboard caricaturists were common vaudeville attractions and the characters in the film look as though they've been drawn on a chalkboard, but it's an illusion. By filming black lines on paper and then printing in negative Cohl makes his animations appear to be chalk drawings.

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  • Wow, amazing work done 103 years ago. This deserves to be in the National Film Registry with Gertie, Duck Amuck, and One Froggy Evening.

  • 0:32 It's the Jack in the Box mascot!

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  • @RayPointer The desctiption states "Cohl makes his animations appear to be chalk drawings".

  • Same here! So amazing ho animation ahs developed thorugh the years. Thank You!

  • Thanks for sharing

  • Very creative.

  • smoking to much opium will do that to a man

  • ye olde stickman adventures xD

  • @RayPointer Your comment was made 4 years ago yet I can see it here lol cool.

  • Wow 103 years ago

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