Emile Cohl was a French animator born in 1857 in Paris. He became interested in animation after seeing motion pictures become popular in 1907. He was hired by Gaumont studios after confronting them about stealing one of his comic strips. His 1908 film Fantasmagorie was a breakthrough as it used techniques like stop motion and hand-drawn animation. It featured a stick figure encountering transforming objects in creative and humorous ways. The film established animation as an art form.

1. Emile Cohl
January 4, 1857 - January
20, 1938

2. Early Life
ÉmileEugène Jean Louis Courtetis the full name of Emile Cohl.
Emile was born on January 4,1857.
Lived in France, Paris.

3. Animation
How he became interested in
animation?
By 1907, the 50-year-old ÉmileCohl, like
everyone else in Paris, had become
aware of motion pictures. How he
actually entered the business is
shrouded in legend. According to Jean-
Georges Auriol in a book of 1930, one
day Cohl was walking down the street
when he spotted a poster advertising a
movie obviously stolen from one of his
strips. Outraged, he confronted the
manager of the offending studio
(Gaumont) and was hired on the spot as
a scenarist (responsible for one-page
story ideas for movies). The story is
rather doubtful in the detail of which strip
and which short film; it is also possible
that the story is completely false, and
that Cohl was approached for the
job, either by director Etienne Arnaud or
by artistic director Louis Feuillade, both
of whom had once worked for caricature
papers and therefore could be expected

4. Fantasmagorie
The film largely consists of a stick figure moving about and encountering all
manner of morphing objects, such as a wine bottle that transforms into a
flower. There were also sections of live action where the animator’s hands
would enter the scene. The main character is drawn by the artist's hand on
camera, and the main characters are a clown and a gentleman.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.

5. What Style of
Animation
Stop motion and hand drawn

6. 5 Things I
like about it
1. It’s Funny
2. I like how everything is
hand drawn
3. It’s Creative
4. I like how everything
flowed freely together
5. Everything transformed
smoothly