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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)
    (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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    animated moving picture system invented by Émile Reynaud and patented in 1888. From 28 October 1892 to March 1900 Reynaud gave over 12,800 shows to a total of...
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    Le Clown et ses chiens (category Films directed by Émile Reynaud)
    in colour by Émile Reynaud. It consists of 300 individually painted images and lasts about 10 minutes. It was the second film that Reynaud made for his...
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  • The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. January 7 William Kennedy Dickson receives...
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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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    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 inner...
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  • Charles-Émile Reynaud. Pauvre Pierrot, an animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Un bon bock, a lost animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud...
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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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    record and present their chronophotographic work on rolls of film. Émile Reynaud seems to have been the first to present motion pictures through the...
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