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Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (born 1844)
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Émile Reynaud
French inventor (1844–1918)
Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope and was responsible for 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Praxinoscope
Animation device
The praxinoscope is an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it uses a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)