Fantasmagoria was first projected in 1908 in Paris and is one of the first example of traditional animation (hand drawn). The animation is mostly made through stick figures, with a clown as a main character.
Before this animation was shown, animation mostly focused on creating movement rather then thinking about a narrative. This animation lasts for almost two minuets and is of a clown character having an adventure, and getting up to all sorts of things, reacting with other characters and variety of morphing objects within the short animation. Although unlike later animations, it is very constant with its speed as timings to creating things like suspense has not been explore much at this point it is still an amazing example for the time it was created.
Traditional animation usually consists of drawing each frame onto separate paper, then later putting the images together in a sequence so when place creates a moving image. This animation was done the same way, and then each farm was shot onto negative film, which is why the animation is black and white. 700 drawings were used to to create Fantasmagotia which were then doubled up and animated on twos.
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