The Cohl animated films had a large impact through their American distribution by Kleine. Many of them received rave reviews in the trade magazines, although Cohl was identified only as "Gaumont's animator". It was probably in response to "Fantasmagorie" that Winsor McCay made "Little Nemo" (1911). Motifs of Cohl's can be found in "Little Nemo" and later films by McCay: the dots coalescing into Little Nemo reflect effects in "Un Drame Chez les Fantoches" and "Les Joyeux Microbes"; the metamorphosis of the rose into the Princess may have been inspired by "Fantasmagorie"; the titular character of "The Story of a Mosquito" (1912) sharpening his beak comes from "Un Drame Chez les Fantoches"; the live-action/animation interaction of McCay throwing a pumpkin to "Gertie the Dinosaur" (1914) may have been an answer to the matador hurling his hatchet at the moon in "Clair de lune espagnol". But if there were borrowings of Cohl by McCay, there was also a wealth of style and spirit in McCay's films that were uniquely his own.