Émile Reynaud Movies

Walt Disney discusses the history of animation, beginning with J. Stuart Blackton and his Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906, and including Gertie the Dinosaur.

The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water from the diving board and then appear on the beach. The woman begins to play with a small dog and is then joined by a gentleman. The two play around on...

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

Short film of 300 individually painted images. A lost film.

One of the first animated short films. A wanderer enters a cabaret in the countryside and asks a waitress for a beer. She comes back with a pint, as the wanderer begins to court her. However, the kitchen boy comes, drinks the beer and vanishes. The wanderer, misunderstanding, asks for another beer....

This is another Animation made by Èmile Reynaud using The Praxinoscope. The Animation is essentially about kids sliding on Ice and then jumping over a Tree Stump Plinth. This is in Series 2 animation number 10.

This is an animated colored Silent Short Film made by Émelie Reynaud in 1878. It is about a baby being fed it's breakfast. The animation was made into motion using The Praxinoscope and was included in his Collection of Three series, each series consisted of 10 different animations. This was in...

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

Émile Reynaud presented three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878. "L'Amazone" is animation number 7 of the third series.

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with sound via wax cylinder recordings. Many of these short films were also presented in hand-tinted color. The performances ranged from theatre (Coquelin the eldest,...

Animation made using The Praxinoscope and is about Two Young Girls playing The Game of Graces. This is found in Series 3 animation number 6.

A short film made by Emile Reynaud

Les Deux Espiègles is an animated film created in 1878 by the French inventor Émile Reynaud. Using his innovative device, the praxinoscope, Reynaud presented an animation that showed his little ones throwing a cat with a blanket, capturing the movement of the animal in the air. This is part of...