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August 17: Fantasmagorie

On 17 August 1908, Fantasmagorie, the first fully animated cartoon, was screened in Paris. Émile Cohl drew it in the style of the Les Arts Incohérents. Les Arts Incohérents, better known in English as the Incoherent Movement, was started in 1882 when Jules Levy organized an exhibit of “drawings by people who could not draw.” […]