Émile Reynaud

Émile Reynaud

Actor · Director · Writer

Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
December 8, 1844

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 the first projected animated films. 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 of film perforations being used. The performances predated Auguste and Louis Lumière's first paid public screening of the cinematographe on 26 December 1895, often seen as the birth of cinema.

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Representative Works

Guillaume Tell
Guillaume Tell
5.0
/ French
Poor Pierrot
Poor Pierrot
6.1
/ French
I Humbly Beg You
I Humbly Beg You
No Rating Yet
/ Georgian
A Good Beer
A Good Beer
3.8
/ French
Clown and His Dogs
Clown and His Dogs
4.8
/ French
Le premier cigare
Le premier cigare
4.5
/ French
Les clowns Price
Les clowns Price
7.0
/ French

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Guillaume Tell
1896Nominee

Best Writing

Guillaume Tell

Poor Pierrot
1892Nominee

Best Director

Poor Pierrot

I Humbly Beg You
2010Nominee

Best Performance

I Humbly Beg You

Career Highlights

Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre
1900Highlight

Best Director

Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre

A Good Beer
1892Highlight

Best Director

A Good Beer