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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 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films.
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Charles-Émile Reynaud. Emile Reynaud. French inventor, artist and showman. Émile Reynaud's father was an horologer and medal engraver, and the Reynaud home was full of mysterious objects to fascinate the young Émile.
The Frenchman Émile Reynaud in 1876 adapted the principle into a form that could be projected before a theatrical audience. Reynaud became not only animation’s first entrepreneur but, with his gorgeously hand-painted ribbons of celluloid conveyed by a system of mirrors to a theatre screen, the first….
Dec 9, 2016 · Today we would like to tell you about Émile Reynaud (1844-1918), who could be considered as the father of animation and the inventor of cartoons. A forgotten genius. In 1877 Émile Reynaud created the praxinoscope, a zootrope with improved mechanisms that allowed a higher quality of movement of the images.
Charles-Emile Reynaud. In 1877 Reynaud created the Praxinoscope and a year later the Praxinoscope Théâtre from which he subsequently developed the Projection Praxinoscope. In 1888 he patented the Théâtre Optique, a large-scale Praxinoscope for public projection.
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 1900 Reynaud gave over 12,800 shows to a total of over 500,000 visitors at the Musée Grévin in Paris.
In 1888, French scientist Charles-Emile Reynaud invented a device called the Theatre Optique. It could project a strip of pictures onto a screen. Reynaud would paint individual images onto flexible strips of gel (gelatine), with perforations on the edge to run through the projection system.
