Émile Cohl
Émile Cohl (French: [kol]; January 4, 1857 – January 20, 1938), born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet, was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest Parisian".
Transfigurations (1909)
A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions. (more)
A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions. (more)
Comic Mutations (1909)
An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the following people who dissolve into one another and into other shapes with startling mystery. (more)
An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the following people who dissolve into one another and into other shapes with startling mystery. (more)
The Four Little Tailors (1910)
The opening scene is in a tailor's shop, showing the four assistants more or less in love with their employer's daughter. After some time, the tailor says he will give his daughter to the one who shows himself to be the cleverest. Some very amusing incidents follow ... (more)
The opening scene is in a tailor's shop, showing the four assistants more or less in love with their employer's daughter. After some time, the tailor says he will give his daughter to the one who shows himself to be the cleverest. Some very amusing incidents follow ... (more)
Art's Infancy (1910)
The Persistent Salesman (1910)
A salesman pursuing a potential client takes tenacity to new heights, and depths. (more)
A salesman pursuing a potential client takes tenacity to new heights, and depths. (more)
Mr. Crack (1910)
In the course of various unfeasible adventures, Monsieur de Crac finds himself comfortably installed in Mount Etna, smoking a pipe, when he is confronted by the Monster of the Volcano, who throws him down into the bowels of the earth and out into an ocean on the ... (more)
In the course of various unfeasible adventures, Monsieur de Crac finds himself comfortably installed in Mount Etna, smoking a pipe, when he is confronted by the Monster of the Volcano, who throws him down into the bowels of the earth and out into an ocean on the ... (more)
The Adventures of Nickel-Feet (1918)
Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these produced, all released between 1917 and 1918. (more)
Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these produced, all released between 1917 and 1918. (more)
The Master of a Fashionable Game (1910)
The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way of solving his puzzle. He puts a handkerchief over the game and immediately the picture is made. Under the handkerchief, we see how, piece by piece, it is put into ... (more)
The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way of solving his puzzle. He puts a handkerchief over the game and immediately the picture is made. Under the handkerchief, we see how, piece by piece, it is put into ... (more)
The Puppet Looks for Lodgement (1921)
The stick man Fantoche is looking for a home, but there doesn't seem to be any room anywhere, not even in Hell. (more)
The stick man Fantoche is looking for a home, but there doesn't seem to be any room anywhere, not even in Hell. (more)
The Little Soldier Who Became a God (1908)
A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals. (more)
A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals. (more)
The Magic Hoop (1908)
Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop with strange properties for a young girl. Costume changes and city promenades give way towards greater abstraction ... (more)
Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop with strange properties for a young girl. Costume changes and city promenades give way towards greater abstraction ... (more)
L'hôtel du silence (1908)
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed. (more)
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed. (more)
The Boutdebois Brothers (1908)
And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little circus. (more)
And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little circus. (more)
Modern Education (1909)
The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book. (more)
The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book. (more)
The Next Door Neighbors (1909)
Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get more than they bargained for when the man discovers their plan and casts a magic spell. (more)
Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get more than they bargained for when the man discovers their plan and casts a magic spell. (more)
Japanese Fantasy (1909)
This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very prominent part. (more)
This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very prominent part. (more)
Head-Dresses of Different Periods (1909)
A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years. (more)
A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years. (more)
Monsieur Clown Among the Lilliputians (1909)
Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head, riding a horse and falling face first off the horse. (more)
Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head, riding a horse and falling face first off the horse. (more)