Modern Education1909

FANTASMAGORIA's squirmy chalk drawings are infused with the same anarchic spirit which inspired Émile Cohl earlier work as a caricaturist and art provocateur.

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions.

A surreal stop-motion haiku featuring dolls and insects, masks and mice.

A floating history of women and fans, from Eve on the first hot day to a Parisian lady sitting in her salon.

Balletic tableaux of porcelain in history. Something of a cinematic oddity, the notion of a "still life in motion" wasn't all that uncommon in the first decade-and-a-half of filmmaking.

Animation in an experimental vein with landladies and fishermen shot through with the impertinent spirit of caricature.