The film largely consists of a stick figure like character moving about and encountering all manner of different types of morphing objects, such as a wine bottle that transforms into a flower. There were also sections of live action where the animator’s hands are involved in creating the scenery and the characters. The main character is drawn by the artist's hand on camera followed by indivdual morphing objects being added gradually, and the main characters are a clown and a gentleman. The film, in all of its wild transformations, is a direct tribute to the by-then forgotten Incoherent movement. The title is a reference to the "fantasmograph", a mid-Nineteenth Century variant of the magic lantern that projected ghostly images that floated across the walls.
The film alone was created through drawing each individual frame on paper then each frame was later on shot on negative film which gave the pictures a black board look.
"It was made up of 700 drawings, each of which was exposed twice (animated "on twos"), leading to a running time of almost two minutes. It borrowed from J. Stuart Blackton, the "chalk-line effect"; filming black lines on white paper, then reversing the negative to make it look like white chalk on a black chalkboard."
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