Émile Cohl

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

Baron de Crac is marooned on a desert island and chased by a strange bird.

Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these...

Four customers are having a peaceful game of cards in a quiet café. The atmosphere being heavy, the waiter falls asleep and has an unsettling...

An animation where real life objects turn into animations.

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle...

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

A painter is seen in his studio with his model. A buyer comes in, and the painter shows him a number of his paintings, all of them based on puns,...

A lighthearted animated history of transport.

Mother in law gets a new set of dentures. Despite being initially happy, the family soon discovers the teeth have a life of their own and jump from...

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of...

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under...

To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in...

Elegant, monocled Lucien Cazalis sees women working on the streets of Paris, and will not have it! Unlike most male chauvinist pigs, he doesn't...

Lucien Cazalis is very excited to be working for a bank. His first assignment is to go to a town and collect a debt. When he arrives, his eccentric...

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little...

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

A near-abstract animation telling a simple romantic story through drawings almost entirely composed of heart shapes.

A man who no longer can afford his rent is forced to sell his beloved furniture. The furniture can not bear to be parted from their owner and decides...

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

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

A splendid blend of live-action photography and Cohl's famous animation, Nothing... displays the realms man has conquered: Air, sea, the domains of...

This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very...

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

This subject portrays in a vivid manner the operations of a puppet in his efforts to see the sights.

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

In "Rêves enfantins", players in the flesh are mixed with animated objects and cut-out paper actors.

A British clown invents a device which shows all people in grotesque sizes.

In the course of various unfeasible adventures, Monsieur de Crac finds himself comfortably installed in Mount Etna, smoking a pipe, when he is...

There have been numerous studies of plants and flowers presented to the public, but none which exhibit the perfection of stereoscopic detail. The...

An animated look at the changing shape of hats through the ages.

Simple line drawings undergoing the usual transformations so beloved of French filmmaker Emile Cohl.

A salesman pursuing a potential client takes tenacity to new heights, and depths.

A Émile Cohl animated short in The Newlyweds series.

Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get more than they bargained for when the man...

A man believes to have scared his perpetually agitated mother-in-law to death and goes out to buy her a nice wreath.

An Émile Cohl animation short.

The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way of solving his puzzle. He puts a handkerchief...

In Le cheveu délateur, a magician discovers the real identity of another character by the movement of a single hair, that, once animated,...

A female fortuneteller examines the sole of a man's foot to see his future.

Depicts a doctor looking into his patient's brain and seeing a collection of hideous and grotesque figures.

Strangely hypnotic short from Émile Cohl featuring the usual seamless transformations, this time of a series of grotesque faces.

And now our funny little friend, Snookums, has started real trouble for his poor Dada. A few of the neighbors and Dada were having a nice quiet...

A bizarre musical couple falls asleep after an insane performance, and dreams about musical instruments.

The stick man Fantoche is looking for a home, but there doesn't seem to be any room anywhere, not even in Hell.

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

Three girls seeking to have their fortunes told invite a witch over. When the girls' father offends the witch, she puts a hex on him and his matches.

Three girls seeking to have their fortunes told invite a witch over. When the girls' father offends the witch, she puts a hex on him and his matches.

Grotesque animated spirits punish a disbeliever who scorns his wife’s interest in the occult.

Jobard receives a note from a secret admirer and goes to a cafe to meet her. However, not knowing what she looks like, he mistakes other woman for...

Gaston finds a letter to a marquise from his father. He wants her daughter to charm the unsuspecting Gaston out of his fear of marriage. Gaston plays...

Showing a weird invention, called hypnotic mirror, in action. Placed before anyone the polished surface reflects the actual thoughts within their...

The opening scene is in a tailor's shop, showing the four assistants more or less in love with their employer's daughter. After some time, the tailor...

A cut-out animation depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules.

The various parts of Faust are played by puppets.

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the...

Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head,...

Several unique specimens of highly ornamented porcelain are shown in series. In each case the various pieces of ware are in reality formed of living...

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

The history of the fan.

A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years.

A film about cupid shoes by Émile Cohl.

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

A animation film from Émile Cohl about a painter.

Émile Cohl uses stop-motion animation to tell about life on the chicken farm.

A man dreams he loses his hat at sea, drowns and gets swallowed by a huge fish.

In this film several objects make paintings on an empty canvas, which all turn into photos and films.

Lucien Cazalis sees a young woman and falls instantly in love. He volunteers to carry her trunk to her apartment, where he kneels, grinning in front...

A child painter sells one of his paintings to an adult who appears to be surprised.

Early short film by Emile Cohl

This collection of vintage cartoons is not only a loopy primer on animation history; it is also an offbeat reflection of western "civilization" in...

Snookums is being amused by the neighbor's kid next door, who gracefully stands on his head for minutes at a time.

Newlywed buys a camera and attempts to photograph the kid.

Part of Émile Cohl's Newlyweds series, based on George McManus' comic strip.

Watching the dial of a taxi-cab is like a fall on a slippery pavement. It is funny, only when the other fellow suffers.

Snookums Newlywed makes acquaintance with a dog.

Snookums Newlywed makes acquaintance with a dog.

This time the trouble is with Snookums and the telephone, and his father has a real struggle to satisfy him.

Poor little dear! This time our little Snookums is in real trouble. No, he was not ill, but, believe me, he was unhappy.

Snookums is being amused by the neighbor's kid next door, who gracefully stands on his head for minutes at a time.

Newlywed buys a camera and attempts to photograph the kid.

This time the trouble is with Snookums and the telephone, and his father has a real struggle to satisfy him.

Poor little dear! This time our little Snookums is in real trouble. No, he was not ill, but, believe me, he was unhappy.

When "Snookums" started to cry, Da-da thought it was because there was no milk in the house, and so he started on a run to the nearest store.

And now our funny little friend, Snookums, has started real trouble for his poor Dada. A few of the neighbors and Dada were having a nice quiet...

Watching the dial of a taxi-cab is like a fall on a slippery pavement. It is funny, only when the other fellow suffers.

Dada has made arrangements to go to a fancy dress ball, and has secured a wonderful costume.

When "Snookums" started to cry, Da-da thought it was because there was no milk in the house, and so he started on a run to the nearest store.

Part of Émile Cohl's Newlyweds series, based on George McManus' comic strip.

Part of Émile Cohl's Newlyweds series, based on George McManus' comic strip.

When "Snookums" discovered this break in the pipe and the splashing water, he thought it was great fun to sit there and let the water spray over his...

When "Snookums" discovered this break in the pipe and the splashing water, he thought it was great fun to sit there and let the water spray over his...

Papa Newlywed and his lovely wife looked up at their child apprehensively. Yes. Their own precious Snookums was on the warpath again

Papa Newlywed and his lovely wife looked up at their child apprehensively. Yes. Their own precious Snookums was on the warpath again

What does 'ittle Snookums want now?

Part of Émile Cohl's Newlyweds series, based on George McManus' comic strip.

Dada has made arrangements to go to a fancy dress ball, and has secured a wonderful costume.

A Émile Cohl animated short in The Newlyweds series.

What does 'ittle Snookums want now?

It's Lucien Cazalis's day for calling on the ladies. Being a true gentleman, he brings some flowers as a gift. Unfortunately, his rival pinches them...

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

Lucien Cazalis first his maid and hires a new one. When she puts on an apron, he realizes how pretty she is. What's a Frenchman to do? However, when...