- The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
- 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.—Nick Riganas
- At the start, it is explained how the cartoon was made, using stop motion photography and hand drawn animation. With energetic piano music playing in the background, a hand draws a clown holding a pole on a chalkboard, before the pole drops and reveals another man, carrying an umbrella and wearing a top hat, before the man sits down at the theatre. A woman wearing a big feather hat comes and sits right in front of the man, stretching out and blocking the man's view. The man gets angry and starts pulling the feathers one by one out of the lady's hat, before finally removing the hat itself. The man then transitions back into the clown, who jumps into a box and uses its pointy hat to poke the man in the stomach. The clown then goes on to fish into a much taller man's pocket, uses his nose to create a plant, before the clown's head comes off and becomes attached to a paddle and is used as a paddle ball. A cannon turns into a giant bottle, before collecting the clown and just as it looks like it is about to burst the clown out, it grows into a flower, with the clown stood on top, before the plant transitions into an elephants trunk, picking up the clown. The clown then comes across a door, which it uses the mini one to get through, only to be revealed as a prison cell, when a police officer locks it up, but the clown escapes and falls and breaks into two, as the pair of hands put the clown together again and it blows itself up and onto a horses back, before ending up riding off screen.
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