After watching Fantasmagorie by Emil Cohl fro 1908 I was impressed to say the
least. He drew about 700 different pictures on glass plates before putting it
all together to create an animation. It appears all these drawings were done in
chalk and I was surprised to learn that chalk drawings actually common
attractions in vaudeville shows, but Cohl instead filmed black lines on paper
and then printed in negative to create the illusion of chalk. Out of all of
this I personally think it’s pretty neat that I got to witness one of the first
animated cartoons over 100 years later.
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