Émile Cohl Movies

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

When "Snookums" started to cry, Da-da thought it was because there was no milk in the house, and so he started on a run to the nearest store.

Poor little dear! This time our little Snookums is in real trouble. No, he was not ill, but, believe me, he was unhappy.

In the course of various unfeasible adventures, Monsieur de Crac finds himself comfortably installed in Mount Etna, smoking a pipe, when he is...

A cut-out animation depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules.

A painter is seen in his studio with his model. A buyer comes in, and the painter shows him a number of his paintings, all of them based on puns,...

An animated look at the changing shape of hats through the ages.

Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head,...

A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years.

To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in...

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get more than they bargained for when the man...

Marius goes on a trip in a car that becomes a boat, and a submarine, and hatches an airplane from an egg.

A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears...

Papa Newlywed and his lovely wife looked up at their child apprehensively. Yes. Their own precious Snookums was on the warpath again

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under...

Snookums is being amused by the neighbor's kid next door, who gracefully stands on his head for minutes at a time.

Émile Cohl uses stop-motion animation to tell about life on the chicken farm.

A near-abstract animation telling a simple romantic story through drawings almost entirely composed of heart shapes.

The opening scene is in a tailor's shop, showing the four assistants more or less in love with their employer's daughter. After some time, the tailor...