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".
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A mixture of stop-motion and live action film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings...
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For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque carica...
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Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of im...
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Prodigious feats of strength by two little wooden men who leave the most sophisticated puppets far b...
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An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animat...
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A delightfully pleasing and beautifully hand-colored series of panoramic views, giving the history o...
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Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean ...
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Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean ...
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A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to t...
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Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various t...
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A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personalit...
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This subject portrays in a vivid manner the operations of a puppet in his efforts to see the sights....
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In a hotel corridor, two pairs of shoes are left in front of two neighboring doors to be shined by t...
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Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get...
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A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body sam...
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Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to...
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A near-abstract animation telling a simple romantic story through drawings almost entirely composed ...
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This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several d...
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There have been numerous studies of plants and flowers presented to the public, but none which exhib...
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An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic ger...
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The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history bo...
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Several unique specimens of highly ornamented porcelain are shown in series. In each case the variou...
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The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way...
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In this film several objects make paintings on an empty canvas, which all turn into photos and films...
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Strangely hypnotic short from Émile Cohl featuring the usual seamless transformations, this time of ...
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Grotesque animated spirits punish a disbeliever who scorns his wife’s interest in the occult....
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| 2 | The Achievements of Will O' the Wisp (1912) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 3 | Les Métamorphoses Comiques (1912) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 4 | The Grotesque Museum (1911) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 5 | Vengeance of the Spirits (1911) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 6 | The Master of a Fashionable Game (1910) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 7 | The Mysterious Fine Arts (1910) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 8 | Mr. Crack (1910) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 9 | The Living Fan (1909) | Director / Writer | 1 | |
| 10 | Crowns, II: The Crown of Thorns (1909) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 11 | Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses (1909) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 12 | Transfigurations (1909) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 13 | Monsieur Clown Among the Lilliputians (1909) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 14 | The Enchanted Spectacles (1909) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 15 | Let's Be Sporty (1909) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 16 | Matrimonial Shoes (1909) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 17 | The Next Door Neighbors (1909) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 18 | The Happy Microbes (1909) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 19 | Head-Dresses of Different Periods (1909) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 20 | Spanish Clair de Lune (1909) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 21 | Affairs of the Heart (1909) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 22 | Japanese Fantasy (1909) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 23 | Floral Frameworks (1909) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 24 | Comic Mutations (1909) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 25 | Modern Education (1909) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 26 | Delicate Porcelains (1909) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 27 | The Little Soldier Who Became a God (1908) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 28 | Drama at the Puppets' House (1908) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 29 | The Magic Hoop (1908) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 30 | The Puppet's Nightmare (1908) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 31 | The Boutdebois Brothers (1908) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 32 | Fantasmagorie (1908) | Director / Writer | 8.5 |

