-Autour d une cabine-Emile Reynaud-1894-

It is weird that this cartoon was made in color when it was first released. And about the length of the film, I just don't understand because all films that were made in 1894 lasted about less than half of a minute. But still this is an excellent cartoon.

This is not film. Reynaud created animations by developing the praxinoscope toy he had already marketed. The background was projected separately and the moving figures were painted on individual cells, then mounted into a paper and leather band and projected using a large praxinoscope (which operated using mirrors. The band was manipulated by hand. The operator could move back wares and forwards to repeat actions or speed or slow up a scene. The music was live.

The device he used to project this animation was called the Théätre Optique. There was no interest in his invention so he started his own shows which he called ' Pantomimes Lumineuses'. Hos films could last up to 15 minutes

That is Théâtre ofcourse not théätre :).
In the first years his shows were popular but around 1900 the Musée Grévin cancelled his shows because film became more and more popular.
Reynaud got depressed destroyed his Théâtre Optique and threw all of his movies in the river Seine (exept for two).
The quality of his projections were far better then the movies that were projected in that periode.

The reason that they could last up to 15 minutes was that the system allowed for the operator to move back and forth between sets of cells, so that certain actions (such as dance steps etc.. ) could be extended into a longer sequence. The image bands themselves were generally about 550 images long.
There are reconstructed examples of the equipment at the Brussels Cinema Museum, the Cinemateque in Paris and there used to be one at the now defunct MoMI in London. The system is a joy to operate!

I saw an edited/black-and-white version of this on the 1955 "Disneyland" episode, "The Story of the Animated Drawing".

Actually, the dog made her fall to the ground.

The quality is to good for 1894!

Mr1920 is designed not filmed!

La musique me fait peur, je ne peux pas croire qu'ils ont 116 ans d'animation!