The Happy Microbes1909

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

DRAMA AT THE PUPPETS’ HOUSE is one of Émile Cohl’s more theatrical animated shorts. The director's sly animation sends up propriety and honor even as it ends with a romantic clinch.

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

A jealous scene at a cantina takes an unexpected turn when the spurned lover’s suicide leap is intercepted by a UFO.

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

A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears them.”