“…22 Our concern here, however, is with the phantom, which, "while presenting the appearance of a body, is only an image." 23 Its earliest appearance, according to Schmitt, is in an illuminated manuscript that can be dated rather precisely to around 1270. "One might say," writes Schmitt, "that the Western phantom, that of cartoons and fantastic films, was born at the end of the thirteenth century."…”