Photographer, teacher and artist, Emile Reynaud is known as the inventor of the Praxinoscope, of the Optical Theater and as the creator of the firsts animated cartoons. He was one of the pioneers of cinema.
October 28 was proclaimed International Animation Day by the International Association of Animated Films (ASIFA), to commemorate the first public performance by Emile Reynaud of « Pantomimes lumineuses » with the Optical Theater at the Musée Grevin, in Paris in 1892.
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