Florence Gould Hall
55 E 59th St
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Émile Cohl, Fantasmagorie
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Saturday Nov 1, 2008 (7pm)
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$10
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Émile Cohl has become the Jeopardy answer that leaves folks empty-headed after an initial "Who is...?" Cohl, commonly known as the "Father of the Animated Cartoon," screened the first fully animated cartoon film, Fantasmagorie, in 1908. A hundred anthropomorphic years after the fact, the never-say-die preservationist Serge Bromberg selects Cohl's surreal two-minute reel and its enchanting chalk-line effect to commemorate the genre's centennial. Tonight's other animations include an anti-Nazi short that features George Pál's exquisite puppets and a wonderful Koko the Clown episode by the Fleischers. Like any connoisseur, Bromberg shares rhapsodic anecdotes about each piece in between his blast-to-the-past piano accompaniments.
