100 years ago today: Emile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" first animation!
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- huntre
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The biography on this fascinating artist.
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Thanks for this reminder!
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- Vierotchka
- 1 year ago
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Absolutely amazing! Thanks so much for this post! I feel educated now.
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- mischabarrett
- 1 year ago
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terrific
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- citizenkate
- 1 year ago
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I know i'm missing the point but there was a lot of violence even 100 years ago
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Beautiful stuff.
What do we reckon ... how good is animation today? And has it lost any of its charm from it's genesis under Cohl?
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This must have been a real cultural shocker a hundred years ago: The fast shifts from image to image, The stream of bizarre imaginings, The childish nature of the drawings. The lack of 'plot', character development or things perceived (at that time ) as 'artistic'.....
We are pretty comfortable with all those things in our modern media, but I'm thinking that in the early days of the 1900's, people found those things especially shocking: That the more up-tight folks took this as a product of a deranged mind, and possibly even added fuel to the prohibition and anti-drug movements that we are still dealing with.
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A special Thank You to the Current staff for cleaning up the post a bit.
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The precursor to this animation was the flip book which first appeared in September, 1868.
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This is a good post, to let us know that from simple beginnings can emerge wonderfully complex concepts and ideas...it doesn't seem that long ago, but look how far we've come...where do we go from here..?
Thanks, huntre...and Vierotchka...
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Vierotchka? Your last posting made me think of this gem from PBS...
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Excellent! :)
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- Vierotchka
- 1 year ago
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That was exciting to me! Probably just as exciting as it was 100 years ago! Thanks! Great post.
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This website is saying there's a 2008 CG re-release in the works.
Good idea?
Bad idea?
What do you think?
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It took him only a few weeks to make before it was released, he started making it in February 1908.
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- phillyharper
- 1 year ago
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Ground breaking and awe inspiring! But I don't see how a CG redux will measure up.
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- rightbrain
- 1 year ago
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This is just beautiful. It's amazing how this was just 100 years ago and now we have animation like Finding Nemo and Wall-E.
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- katielanae
- 1 year ago
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very cool huntre thanks for sharing, , its truely awesome
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Such an interesting timeline...
1824 John Ayrton Paris - Thaumatrope
1834 William Horner - Zoetrope
1868 John Barnes Linnet - Kineograph (flick book)
1894 Herman Casler's "What the Butler Saw" - Mutoscope
1908 Emile Cohl's animated Fatasmagorie
1914 Winsor McCay's animated Gertie the DinosaurAnd similar such stop motion animated humour can clearly be seen being mimiced by Felix the Cat (1919)
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A lesson for all of us in Emile Cohl's ... The Hasher's Delirium (1910).
Not sure if this would make me take up the bottle rather than shy away from it.
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Excellente!
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I really needed to see this today Huntre as I am feeling rather depressed about so many things.
Art in all of its forms fascinates me and we can talk about as well as educate on any issue through this amazing medium.
Thank you :)
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sweet
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This is a great post! It actually brightened up my day. Thankyou Cohl for your artistic influence!
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- IndieArtist
- 1 year ago
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An additional Thanks to CBS's Sunday Morning show for bringing this news to my attention in the first place.
This is just one great example of why that show has been on for so many, many years.
