The start of the animation

The history of animation began long before the film. In the nineteenth century, a variety of different optical toys make their appearance. As the thaumatrope of the English John Ayrton, the phénakistiscope of the Belgian Joseph Plateau, the zoetrope of English William George Horner and the praxinoscope of French Emile Reynaud.

The theater optical :

Emile Reynaud will improve his invention several times to create the optical theater permitting to project a cartoon. He is the only one who knows the running as it is complex.


These films were silent, and thus accompanied by a piano.