Fantasmagorie - 1908

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Fantasmagorie is a French film by Émile Cohl and is supposedly, it is the first animated cartoon. 
Émil Cohl was a French  artist and possibly the first cartoon filmmaker in Europe.  He joined the Gaumont film company in 1908 and worked as a writer, eventually moving up to making animated cartoons after Gaumont tasked him with discovering how to make films similar to The Haunted House, a film released by Vitagraph and directed by J. Stuart Blackton in 1907 that used some of the first object animation techniques.  Cohl made over 250 films using cut-outs, drawings, puppets, and other objects.