Rêve au coin du feu (1894)

Original title

Un rêve au coin du feu

Directed by

Émile Reynaud

Genre

silent film

Country

France

Runtime

12 min

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a very early French animated short film from 1894. It shows a simple dreamlike scene, likely using Reynaud's praxinoscope projection system. The film is a historic artifact of the very first projected moving images.

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What happens

Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) 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 first known instance of film perforations being used. The performances predated Auguste and Louis Lumière's first paid public screening of the cinematographe on 26 December 1895, often seen as the birth of cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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