Émile Cohl & Les Douze Travaux d'Hercule

Émile Cohl (January 4, 1857 – January 20, 1938), born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet, was a French caricaturist of the largely-forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest Parisian".

Cohl made "Fantasmagorie" from February to May or June 1908. This is considered the first fully animated film ever made. It was made up of 700 drawings, each of which was double-exposed, leading to a running time of almost two minutes.
For the first time, Cohl used découpé paper in his film Les 12 travaux d'Hercule, in 1910.

Film Le fatiche di Ercole

Title: Le fatiche di Ercole
Production: Spain - Italy 1958
Protagonist: Hercules
Actors: Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina
Director: Pietro Francisci

Genre: Adventure

The film is taken from The Argonauts of Apollonius Rhodius. Hercules arrives on the island of Iolco to be the mentor of Iphitus, son of King Pelias. Just arrived, however, he is hopelessly in love with the beautiful and sweet daughter of the sovereign. But before he can obtain her hand, he has to solve twelve labours, with the help of Jason and the Argonauts. The film inaugurated the series of mythological postwar Italian moovies and obtained the first place in the collections of the 1957-58 season. It was exported all over the world.

Les douze Travaux...d'Asterix

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (Les Douze travaux d'Astérix) is an animated feature film based on the Asterix comic book series. René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, the creators of the series, wrote the story and directed the film themselves; with co-direction by Pierre Watrin and the screenplay co-written by Pierre Tchernia, a friend of Goscinny and Uderzo.

After a group of legionaries is once again beaten up by the gauls, they imagine: "With such huge strength, they can't be human... they must be gods". Julius Caesar is informed, and laughs. He makes a decision with his council and goes to Armorica, to speak with Vitalstatistix. He gives the Gauls a series of 12 tasks, inspired by Hercules (but new ones, since the 12 Labours are outdated). Vitalstatistix assembles their best warriors, Asterix and Obelix, to do the job. The Roman Caius Tiddlus is sent along with them to guide them and check they complete each task.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is an television series, filmed in New Zealand and United States. It was produced from 1995 to 1999, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Hercules. It ran for six seasons, producing action figures and other memorabilia as it became one of the highest rated syndicated shows in television history.

Chinese Hercules film (1073)

In Chinese Hercules Yeung, kung fu fandom's inimitable (say that word three times fast) strongman plays hired muscle for an organized crime syndicate that plans to push dockworkers out of their job, presumably to use the dock for smuggling operations. When the foreman (Wong Chung-shun), backed by his labor force stands up to their corrupt boss in defense of their jobs, Yeung and a ruthless syndicate boss (Fong Yau) arrive with only one response, "Kill 'em and dump 'em."
Chinese Hercules is a misleading international title clearly used in an attempt to tie the movie into the prolific European sword and sandal drive-in flicks of the 1960s. The craze was kicked off in 1958 when bodybuilder and former Mr. Universe Steve Reeves took on the role of the Greek hero Hercules in Le fatiche di Ercole (aka Hercules unchained).

The Mighty Hercules

The Mighty Hercules was an animated series based loosely on the Greek mythological character of Heracles, under his Roman Mythology name, Hercules. It was created in 1962 and then debuted on TV in 1963 and ran until 1966.

The twelve Labours of Hercules

Dear Hercules...

I won't say I'm in love...