Clown and His Dogs (1892)

Original title

Clown et ses chiens

Directed by

Émile Reynaud

Genre

silent film, comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

5 min

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A clown performs tricks with his dogs in a series of hand-painted scenes. The short silent film uses colorful, individual images to tell a simple story.

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What happens

Le Clown et ses chiens (aka The Clown and His Dogs) is an 1892 French short animated film hand-painted in colour by Émile Reynaud. It consists of 300 individually painted images and lasts about 10 minutes. It was the second film that Reynaud made for his Théâtre Optique, after Un bon bock (created in 1888). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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