France

Émile (Eugène Jean Louis) Courtet

Filed under: people, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, Early Sound, France, Pixilation, U.S.A., World War 1 ( WW1 ), Animator, Artist, Background Artist, Cartoonist, Director, Writer

"Émile Cohl was an important early independent cartoonist and animator, who was a caricaturist in the "Incoherent Movement" and has often been called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon.""

Fantasmagorie

Filed under: animation, 1900s, France, Silent, 1908

Producer(s): Émile Cohl

Release Date: 17/08/1908

"A spectacle driven early silent era animation which depicted morphing stick figures and objects. Though sometimes attributed to be the first completely animated film, the animators hands are clearly visible at one point."

Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)(1973)

Filed under: animation, 1970s, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, France, Jiří Trnka Studio, Réne Laloux, Slovakia, Technicolor, 1973

Producer(s): Simon Damiani Anatole Dauman Andre Valio-Cavaglione Vaclav Strnad

Release Date: 11/05/1973 (Cannes); 06/12/1973 (France); 21/12/1973 (Czechslovakia)

"Fantastic Planet (1973), based on Stefan Wul's novel Oms en série (1957), takes place in a distant future where the giant blue-skin aliens, the Draags, enslave and oppress humans. Terr, the protagonist, is a human boy raised as a pet of a Draag girl..."

Le songe d’un garçon de café / The Hasher’s Delirium

Filed under: animation, France, 1910

Release Date: 21/05/1910

"Emile Cohl's delightful animation explores the inebriated state of a drunken man, using a white plate to showcase the inner "deliriums" of his mind. The images mutate, transform, associate becoming more and more frightening for the man, until he burs..."

Mr. Crack

Filed under: animation, France, 1910

"Cohl's adaptation of the popular French operetta "Monsieur de Crac" was based on the tales of Baron Münchhausen, a German nobleman famous for his tall-tales. In this 4 min piece, Cohl uses 2-D cut out puppets and stop-motion photography to animate..."

Réne Laloux

Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, France, Réne Laloux, Animator, Director, Screenwriter

"Réne Laloux is a French animator, screenwriter, and director. Laloux studied painting at the university before working in advertising (Brode 174). Later, Laloux entered La Borde Psychiatric Clinic, where he treated the patients by creating short ..."