Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie 1908

thank you! you helped me doing my term paper

Thank you so much for putting this up! I too am doing an essay on animation...

Wow, animation 100 next year.

The comment that this was done on chalk is incorrect. First of all, it is impossible to animate with this much accuracy in chalk. Cohl animated on paper and the white line effect was the result of using a "negative reverse" changing the black line on paper to white on black.

99 years ago...

I once made a research about the history of animation and I read about Fantasmagorie -and its role in it- but I never thought I would actually watch it. Thank you very much.

Thanks for posting this. I am just starting to get interested in early animation, so i had never seen this. I see some influences of this on Winsor McCay (i am guessing here, judging by dates).

Emile cohl, the "The Father of the Animated Cartoon", came just before McCay.

You'll have to search the web for it... I've had it sitting on my computer for ages!!