The Théâtre Optique (Optical Theatre) is an animated moving picture system invented by Émile Reynaud and patented in 1888. From 28 October 1892 to March...

His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris. His Théâtre Optique film system, patented in 1888, is also notable as the first known instance...

projection before 1882. He then further developed the device into the Théâtre Optique, which could project longer sequences with separate backgrounds, and...

Charles-Émile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin. It was the first film to demonstrate the Théâtre Optique system developed by Reynaud...

projection before 1882. He then further developed the device into the Théâtre Optique which could project longer sequences with separate backgrounds, patented...

of examples are known to still exist. In 1888 Reynaud developed the Théâtre Optique, an improved version capable of projecting images on a screen from...

about 10 minutes. It was the second film that Reynaud made for his Théâtre Optique, after Un bon bock (created in 1888). The film shows a clown entering...

Charles-Émile Reynaud developed his projection praxinoscope into the Théâtre Optique with transparent hand-painted colorful pictures on a long perforated...

Reynaud receives a French patent for his animated moving picture system Théâtre Optique. He also received a British patent for the system on February 8. The...

Painted in 1888, it was first screened on 28 October 1892 using the Théâtre Optique process, which allowed him to project a hand-painted colored film,...

Praxinoscope Theatre, where the device was enclosed in a viewing box, and the Projecting Praxinoscope. Eventually he created the "Théâtre Optique", a large...

October 1892 to March 1900 at the Musée Grévin in Paris, with his Théâtre Optique system. He gave over 12,800 shows to a total of over 500,000 visitors...

with 90 mm wide roll paper film. Charles-Émile Reynaud patents his Théâtre Optique which uses a kind of perforated film to create an animated show. Roundhay...

work is completed on the Bioskop projector in late 1895. October 18 – Théâtre Optique event opens, showing projected motion pictures to the public at the...

phantasmagoria shows, the phénakisticope, the zoetrope and Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique consisted of hand-drawn images. A system that could record photographic...

images hand painted in 1893. The film showed off Emile's invention, the Théâtre Optique. It was shown at the Musée Grévin from December 1894 until March 1900...

frames. At the Exposition Universelle, Edison would have seen both the Théâtre Optique and the electrical tachyscope of German inventor Ottamar Anschütz....

1892 to March 1900, inventor Émile Reynaud exhibited his Théâtre Optique ("Optical Theatre") film system at the Musée Grévin in Paris. Reynaud's device...

several theatre companies in France are developing the practice of shadow puppets: Le Théâtre des Ombres, Le Théâtre du Petit Miroir, Le Théâtre Les Chaises...

Praxinoscope Theatre (where the device was enclosed in a viewing box) and the Projecting Praxinoscope. Eventually he created the "Théâtre Optique", a large...

frames long, and films of about 500~600 pictures, projected on its own Théâtre Optique at Musée Grévin in Paris, France, on 28 October 1892. Émile Cohl created...

Reynaud, but first exhibited to an audience in 1892 with Reynaud's Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin. The film consists of 500 individually painted...

performance of a moving picture show at the Musée Grévin in Paris, the Théâtre Optique. The show, billed as Pantomimes Lumineuses, included three cartoons...

projection before 1882. He then further developed the device into the Théâtre Optique which could project longer sequences with separate backgrounds, patented...

Charles-Émile Reynaud began to have public screenings in Paris at the Théâtre Optique, with hundreds of drawings on a reel that he wound through his Zoetrope...

creates the film Le Clown et ses chiens (The Clown and His Dogs) for his Théâtre Optique. It would not be exhibited to an audience until 1892. March 19: Gayne...

animation. This day commemorates the debut of Charles-Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin in Paris in 1892. In 1895, the cinematograph of...

presentations of his hand-painted bands of Pantomimes Lumineuses for his Théâtre Optique from 1892 to 1900 at the Musée Grévin in Paris can be regarded as earlier...

(lithographed film loops for home use and Charles-Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique films had already been popular in Europe for years). Following the...

Osterwa Theater, the Old Theatre was used mainly by traveling theater troupes and circus artists. In 1907, a cinema named Théâtre Optique Parisien was opened...