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Fantasmagorie (1908)

Name: Fantasmagorie
Genre: Animation
Released: 1908
Duration: 1 min

19081 minAnimation✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Fantasmagorie (1908) is a 1-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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About Fantasmagorie (1908)

Emile Cohl, the French caricaturist behind Fantasmagorie (1908), is often called the father of the animated cartoon; his films are full of line drawings that transform from one thing into another.

Wikipedia : Fantasmagorie is a 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl . It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation , and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon .

Quick facts

Year: 1908
Runtime: 1 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Credits (Internet Archive record): Émile Cohl
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

Synopsis from the Internet Archive item page

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1908 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent cartoon.
Source: Internet Archive

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