Cohl created Fantasmagorie using what came to be known as traditional animation methods in 1908.

This has been achieved through the combination of traditional animation art with the very latest in computer-generated image technology.

The huge technical team has crafted images that often transcend traditional animation to look at once remarkably lifelike and suitably fantastical.

It was the first full-length traditional animation movie -a revolutionary technique in which each frame was drawn by hand on a physical medium.

It might've helped a little that, like traditional animation, puppets are easy to dub into other languages-30of them, in 190 countries.

Traditional animation may be under threat after the disappointing performance of Disney's 'Treasure Planet', writes Donald Clarke.