Developing Stop Motion Animation

Emile Cohl was a French animator, born on January 4th 1857, who brought stop motion animation to America, he used drawings, puppets and other inanimate objects to create his stop motion films. As a teenager he discovered Guignol puppet theater, Fantoche and caricature, this was a form of drama where all the characters involved are puppets of marionettes.

In his 50's Chol found work at 'Gaumont', a mini-major film studio, during his time there he collaborated other directors, learning cinematography from Arnaud and how to direct comedies, 'fairy pieces' and pageants, despite all this, his specialty was animation. He was asked by his boss to figure out the mystery of 'The Haunted Hotel', Chol studied the film frame by frame and in this way discovered  the basic techniques of animation.
His first animated film was titled 'Fantasmagorie', it was released in 1908 and used 700 of his drawings, all individually photographed to create the animated sequence lasting two minutes. This was considered the first fully animated film ever made