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- Birth nameÉmile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet
- Pioneering animator Emile Cohl was born Emile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet in Paris, France, in 1857. He began his career as a caricaturist, cartoonist and writer in his 20s, and in 1908 he was hired by the Gaumont film company as a writer. He soon also became a director, turning out comedies and fantasies, but animated films--which were just starting to come into their own--fascinated him and he began experimenting with them. He worked with line drawings, silhouettes and puppets, and in 1908 he turned out A Fantasy (1908), generally considered to be the first fully animated film (it consisted of 700 drawings of a character he created, "Fantoche", each separately photographed). He made more than 250 animated films between 1908 and 1923 for a variety of studios, including Eclair and Pathe.
Unfortunately, Cohl was financially ruined by the Great Depression of the early 1930s, and he died in poverty in France in 1938 after having caught pneumonia.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpousesSuzanne Delpy(June 1896 - January 20, 1938) (his death, 1 child)Marie Servat(November 12, 1881 - May 13, 1889) (divorced, 1 child)
- French pioneer cartoonist and caricaturist, who made animated short films for Gaumont and Pathé from 1908. Due to the Great Depression, he ended his career in abject poverty.
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