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Fantasmagorie

1908 · 2 min

A playful, surreal two-minute burst of hand-drawn imagination where shapes constantly transform in a dreamlike, stream-of-consciousness flow.

Tagline
Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation
Overview
An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • freedom
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism0
Romance0
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity4
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
animation, comedy
Directed by
Émile Cohl
Written by
Émile Cohl
Runtime
2 min
Country
France
Languages
No Language

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