Chalk
see all genres ›A seldom-utilized but distinctive animation method, chalk enabled pioneering French cartoonist Emile Cohl to create his droll miniatures in cinema's earliest days.
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Fantasmagoria
Émile Cohl was already 50 by the time he made his first breakthrough work for Gaumont. FANTASMAGORIA's squirmy chalk drawings are infused with the same anarchic spirit which inspired his earlier work as a caricaturist and art provocateur. Pointedly crude, the animation skewers a bourgeois lady at...Watch Movie
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The Puppet's Nightmare
The nightmare of Émile Cohl’s chalk animation is one of unreliable appearances. Fishermen catch fish which eat them whole. Ladders transform into coils which just as suddenly take the form of angry mustachioed soldiers. The human figure at the receiving end of these...Watch Movie
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Drama at the Puppets' House
As the title suggests, DRAMA AT THE PUPPETS’ HOUSE is one of Émile Cohl’s more theatrical animated shorts. The chalked forms are arranged as a cast, with two stick figures vying for the affection of a third and a stern policeman patrolling the frame. Cohl’s sly animation sends...Watch Movie
