Phantasmagoria - A Bodleian Ballad Halloween - #4

The Phatasmagoria was a slideshow display, often of ghosts and skeletons, popular in the late 1700s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria

There are two editions in the Bodleian library, one from around 1800:
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/view/edition/15879

The animated film is by Émile Cohl and called Fantasmagorie, released in 1908:
https://archive.org/details/1908-first-animated-cartoon-emile-cohl-5

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