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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Cartoon Centennial
Posted by Bill Benzon on 08/19/08 at 11:28 AM
Animated film is 100 years old. Emile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie premiered on 17 August 2007. Hat tip to Cartoon Brew :
Wow, Its century. It must been hard work mixing up the frames. The hand appears looks like original. What technologies were used then?
From the Wikipedia entry on Cohl :
Cohl made “Fantasmagorie” from February to May or June 1908. This is considered the first fully animated film ever made. It was made up of 700 drawings, each of which was double-exposed, leading to a running time of almost two minutes. Despite the short running time, the piece was packed with material devised in a “stream of consciousness” style. It borrowed from Blackton in using a “chalk-line effect” (filming black lines on white paper, then reversing the negative to make it look like white chalk on a black chalkboard), having the main character drawn by the artist’s hand on camera, and the main characters of a clown and a gentleman (this taken from Blackton’s “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"). The film, in all of its wild transformations, is a direct tribute to the by-then forgotten Incoherent movement. The title is a reference to the “fantasmograph”, a mid-Nineteenth Century variant of the magic lantern that projected ghostly images that floated across the walls.
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