The First Period

The First Period spans the years before the screening of Émile Cohl’s film Fantasmagorie in Paris, France. There is no ‘animation’ as such there, but the film still incorporates many features that look like what nowadays we would consider to be animation. We will call this period ‘Before Fantasmagorie (0–1908)’.

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