Animation (Reynaud's Théâtre Optique)
Animación (Théâtre Optique de Reynaud)
- Date
- 1892 (patentado en 1888) · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Émile Reynaud
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Reynaud projected hand-painted picture strips before an audience with his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin in Paris, giving narrative motion to drawings for the first time. It is the direct precedent of animated drawing and narrative cinema.
Reynaud patented the Théâtre Optique in 1888 and premiered the first 'Pantomimes Lumineuses' on 28 October 1892, three years before the Lumières' cinematograph.
What it led to
- Animated drawing as an autonomous narrative form
- Public projected moving-picture entertainment
- The 20th-century animation industry