Emile Cohl’s short animation Fantasmagorie was created in 1908. It is an extremely important piece of work as film historians credit it to be the first cartoon animation. Fantasmagorie is translated to phantasmagoria in English. Dictionary.com defines it as “a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination” or “a changing scene made up of many elements.” I think both meanings are applicable to Cohl’s […]