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    Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877...
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    Pauvre Pierrot (category Films directed by Émile Reynaud)
    Pierrot (or Poor Pete) is a French short animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1891 and released in 1892. It consists of 500 individually painted...
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  • pioneer animator Charles-Émile Reynaud starts holding free magic lantern shows in the style of François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno. Reynaud had previously worked...
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  • Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City. June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in...
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    successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the...
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  • by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Pauvre Pierrot, an animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Un bon bock, a lost animated film directed by Charles-Émile...
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    Un bon bock (category Films directed by Émile Reynaud)
    (aka A Good Beer) is an 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud. Painted in 1888, it was first screened on 28 October 1892 using the...
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  • Charles-Émile Reynaud improved on the Zoetrope idea by placing mirrors at the center of the drum. He called his invention the Praxinoscope. Reynaud developed...
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    apparently the Théâtre Optique, patented by French inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1888. Reynaud's system did not use photographic film, but images painted...
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  • Charles-Émile Reynaud improved on the Zoetrope idea by placing mirrors at the center of the drum. He called his invention the Praxinoscope. Reynaud developed...
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  • 1: Charles-Émile Reynaud files a patent for his animated moving picture system Théâtre Optique. The patent was issued on 14 January 1889. Reynaud in the...
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  • Events in 1892 in animation. October 11: Charles-Émile Reynaud signed a contract with the Musée Grévin, allowing him to start regular public screenings...
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  • match the running time of an entire reel of film. French inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud developed the praxinoscope in 1876 and patented it in 1877. It is...
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  • Events in 1890 in animation. Specific date unknown: Charles-Émile Reynaud creates the film Le Clown et ses chiens (The Clown and His Dogs) for his Théâtre...
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  • Autour d'une cabine (category Films directed by Émile Reynaud)
    film directed by Émile Reynaud. It is an animated film made of 636 individual images hand painted in 1893. The film showed off Emile's invention, the Théâtre...
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  • techniques to turn popular comic strips into animated cartoons. Charles-Émile Reynaud developed his projection praxinoscope into the Théâtre Optique with...
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  • hand on May 20, 1891 at Edison's laboratory. On 28 October 1892 Charles-Émile Reynaud gave the first public performance of a moving picture show at the...
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  • cabinet cards, entitled The Horse in Motion. Specific date unknown: Charles-Émile Reynaud received an honourable mention at the 1878 Exposition Universelle...
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  • Events in 1891 in animation. Specific date unknown: Charles-Émile Reynaud creates the film Pauvre Pierrot (Poor Pete). The film consists of 500 individually...
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    École Polytechnique, scholar at the Collège of Le Puy in the 1770s Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844–1918), inventor from a Le-Puy-en-Velay family, lived there...
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  • Queen of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925) December 8 – Charles-Émile Reynaud, French science teacher, animation pioneer (d. 1918) December 18...
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    General Charles Huntziger Weygand's job as Commander-in-Chief. Huntziger accepted in principle, but de Gaulle was unable to persuade Reynaud to sack Weygand...
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  • born in France at the end of the 19th century. The praxinoscope of Charles-Émile Reynaud (1877) is an animation device intermediary between the zoetrope...
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    Émile François Loubet (French: [emil lubɛ]; 30 December 1838 – 20 December 1929) was the 45th Prime Minister of France from February to December 1892...
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  • Edison files for a patent of the Kinetoscope. 1892 – In France, Charles-Émile Reynaud began to have public screenings in Paris at the Théâtre Optique...
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  • 1868 Flip book John Barnes Linnett animation 1877 Praxinoscope Charles-Émile Reynaud animation 1894 Mutoscope William Kennedy Dickson, Herman Casler...
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  • 1917 – Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853) 1918 – Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)...
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  • on his chronophotographe camera with 90 mm wide roll paper film. Charles-Émile Reynaud patents his Théâtre Optique which uses a kind of perforated film...
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  • animation on standard film (lithographed film loops for home use and Charles-Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique films had already been popular in Europe for years)...
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  • pioneer animator Charles-Émile Reynaud starts holding free magic lantern shows in the style of François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno. Reynaud had previously worked...
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