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Volume 118, January 1908.
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| Emile Cohl produced 'Fantasmagorie', a film depicting white moving figures on a black background. Cohl made over 700 drawings for 'Fantasmagorie' to produce a film with startling perspectival alterations, fluidity of movement, and a convincing illusion of solid forms moving in spatial depth. Cohl went on to make or contribute to several more films produced by the Gaumont Company, which had great success in America and probably influenced both Blackton and McCay. His work was characterised by abstracted open line work which contrasts with McCay's illusionistic use of trompe l'oel and rendered forms which became the defining style of American animation. Cohl's work was deeply influenced by the 19th century artist group, 'the 'Incoherents', who were obsessed with insanity as an aesthetic issue. Cohl's 'Incoherent cinema' rejected normative narrational methods; rather than relate incidents in their logical linear order, he preferred to let images flow in stream of consciousness fashion. dreams, nightmares and hallucinations were as much a part of cinematic practice as they had been of 19th century Incohernet's paintings and drawings and links Cohl's works with traditions of visionary art that extends back to Bosch, Breugel and Grandville. Cohl developed specific codes for achieving dislocating effects; his most characteristic was the extended metamorphic sequence in which the outlines of objects continually melt into other shapes. 'Brains Repaired' (1911) was one of his most striking examples of this technique. Amongst Cohl's other technical achievements was the first use of matte photography to combine animation with live action in 'Clair de Lune espagnol' (The Man in the Moon', 1909).he was also the first to abandon the hand-cranked camera for one with an electrically driven shutter (May, 1909) |
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| Now you too can have your very own home slide projector. Hours of fun! Collect many different slides depicting a wide variety of different scenes. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Car maker Henry Ford introduces his Model T automobile. By 1927, when it is discontinued, 15.5 million Models T's will be sold in the U.S. Ford owes much of his success to his improved assembly line process, which by 1913 will produce a complete Model T every 93 minutes. | |||||||||||||||||||
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