biography
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Cohl, Emile
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originally Emile Courtet
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1857–1938)
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| biography:
| Cartoonist, and pioneer of the animated cartoon film, born in Paris, France. A pupil of the caricaturist, André Gill (1840–85), his first cartoons were published in Le Rire (1880). He became comedy film writer/director at the Gaumont Studio, where he used simple stick figures to produce the first frame-by-frame animated cartoon film, Fantasmagorie (1908). Sent to New York City by Eclair Films, he adapted the George McManus strip, The Newlyweds and Their Baby, into the first animated series (1912). |
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