While this site is dedicated to Keeping the Lights On and the artists who make up the series, as a filmmaker and lover of cinema I must spend a few lines to pay homage to an important moment in film history. It was a hundred years ago today that French director Emile Cohl first screened what many consider to be the first fully-animated film, Fantasmagorie.
Like most adults, I don't watch as many animated TV shows and feature films as I once did. But I am no less fascinated by the process, the many wonderful stories told, and the ways film and film language are challenged and pushed in animation.
Much respect to Mr. Cohl and his contribution to motion pictures.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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