Fancy Matches

1914
6.6| 0h4m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 13 July 1914 Released
Producted By: Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse
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To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in circular, concentric movements. In an almost aquatic momentum, the squadron of little bits of wood mould the contours of a character, a run-of-the-mill smoker, before transforming into a funny harness. The film ends when the matches, again transformed, take on the appearance of a distinguished man who, after several attempts, finally finds a way of lighting his cigarette.

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Émile Cohl

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Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse

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Fancy Matches Audience Reviews

Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
boblipton This rare Emile Cohl animation is not so rare as it used to be: it can be found on the Europa Film Treasure site.It's another typically untypical Emile Cohl work, owing as much to stop-motion animation as straight cartooning, with a lot of abstract figures and sketches done with matchsticks. It's also a stream-of-consciousness non-narrative as the figures transform from one to another, with intermissions of pipes, cigars and finally cigarettes. Cohl worked absurdly fast in an era before the Bray patents or rotoscoping. His only real competition was Winsor MacKay, who produced one cartoon every few years. It would be another year before Raoul Barre entered the fray with THE ARTIST'S DREAM and another two years before he began his regular series for Edison with THE ANIMATED GROUCH CHASER. Eventually the history of cartoons would proceed from Barre's work, and Cohl's work would be an interesting early bypath in their evolution. But they are still entertaining in their own right.