The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
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Much to our amazement, with the use of chalkboard hand-drawn animation, the caricaturist Émile Cohl conjures up the stick figure of an agile and pliable clown as he encounters a plethora of ever-shifting objects. Without a doubt, the transformations seem endless, in an attempt that is considered to be the very first animated cartoon.
Written by Nick Riganas
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Metamorphosis
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A Fantasy
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Black and White
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A Fantasy
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A Fantasy
(United Kingdom)
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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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Edited into
International Festival of Animation (1977).
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