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Emile Reynaud (1986)
Directed by Pierre Levie
Documentary, Drama · 11m
The 8th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Fictionalised documentary about Emile Reynau who invented the praxinoscope and its system of central mirrors. He then projects his paper strips into the projection praxinoscope before creating the Théâtre Optique, presented at the Musée Grévin. The perforated strips are fragile and often break. The show is cancelled. Reynaud tries to apply photography to his praxinoscope, but without success. Desperate and ruined, he throws his strips into the Seine. Only two survived.
Cast
Michael Lonsdale
Crew
- Director
- Pierre Levie
- Director of Photography
- Raymond Fromont
- Editor
- Rosanne Van Haesebrouck
Details
- Release date
- 1986-01-01
- Runtime
- 11m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Belgium
- Production
- SODEP