Pauvre Pierrot
Pauvre Pierrot (1892)

Pauvre Pierrot

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If I had watched this short movie, I'd never have thought that it comes from the year 1892. I've seen way worse animation from 75 years later.

It's cheating a little to list this as a film as strictly speaking it's not one, though its maker Émile Reynaud pushed pre-cinema technology as far as it could go to achieve an experience practically indistinguishable from that of watching a theatrical presentation of an animated cartoon film. His Théâtre Optique featured his Praxinoscope, a radical development of old-established animation toys like the Zoetrope.

It is said that Pauvre Pierrot (1892) was the first animated film ever (it was presented with Le Clown et ses chiens (1892) and Un bon bock (1892)). Was exhibited in October 1892 when Charles-Émile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin.

History lesson time! Back when films were viewed as magical gimmicks rather than an art form, inventor Reynaud made advancements on the standard zoetrope that children would be hypnotised by, and patented the praxinoscope.

They zoom in on her mouth as she stands at the closed door. She doesn't even have to knock (at least that's what i noticed) the guy opens the door for her with out knowing.

Charles Emile Reynaud is often given little credit for his pioneering of the Animation genre. For Shame!

Like his other work, Autour d'une cabine, Charles-Émile Reynaud has shown us again a pre-cinema antique without any theme. But in spite of his other work, this one has a rather acceptable sketch (which one cannot call a plot yet), and also a memorable form.

This is one of the first animations ever made, and considering that it was made in 1892, is quite well made.The story is quite too simple, which character from the Italian "Commedia dell'arte" (Harlequin, Pierrot and Colombina) but the most impressive thing about this is the technique, with may look quite too simple for this days, but it still has the magic and charm from the first film of the history of cinema.

This might be fairly basic animation compared to today's 3D computer-generated spectaculars, but it is in its own way just as remarkable. Emile Reynaud developed many marvels like this, and operated some rather tricky mechanism to screen it.

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