Fantasmagorie
English titles: A Fantasy, Metamorphosis
- Studio
- Gaumont Studios
Synopsis
A series of images transform into other images. There is no real narrative story to the successive images. The main character, a clown, morphs into many situations and shapes, except for one scene, using cutouts, when live hands appear onscreen to make "repairs" to a broken character.
Characters
Clown
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Émil Cohl
Producing
- Producer
- Émil Cohl
Animation
- Animator
- Émil Cohl
Production notes
Silent cartoon.
Fully animated with no live action, generally considered to be the first fully-animated film.
Created from over 700 drawings, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing on top of it. By showing the negative instead of a positive of the film, Cohl made his line drawings appear to be chalk drawings- white on black instead of the black on white of this actual work.
Premiered at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris.
Fully animated with no live action, generally considered to be the first fully-animated film.
Created from over 700 drawings, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing on top of it. By showing the negative instead of a positive of the film, Cohl made his line drawings appear to be chalk drawings- white on black instead of the black on white of this actual work.
Premiered at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris.
