On this day in 1908, the first animated film was released: Émile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" (upload.wikimedia.org)
An animated film by French caricaturist, cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many film historians to be the very first animated cartoon. Despite appearances the animation is not created on a blackboard but rather on paper, the blackboard effect...