emile reynaud

Emile Reynaud, inventor, artist and showman, devised the important Praxinoscope optical toy, and was the first to show cartoon 'films' on a public screen. Reynaud's father was an horologist and medal engraver, and the Reynaud home was full of mysterious objects to fascinate the young Charles-Emile. His mother was an accomplished water-colourist. At fourteen, already knowledgeable in literary and scientific matters, Emile was apprenticed to a precision engineer in Paris, and later studied with the sculptor-photographer, Adam Salomon. Soon he was preparing lantern slides, photographic and hand-drawn, for the audiovisual lectures arranged by the Abbé Moigno, becoming very experienced in image projection.

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