In 1908, Émile Cohl's short film Fantasmagorie became the world's first animated cartoon. Before this groundbreaking achievement, stop-motion techniques were used to bring inanimate objects to life.

The first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie, was a 1:45 long cartoon that aired in 1908 consisting of a stick-man transitioning through a series of misadventures. From such humble beginnings, the medium ...