Charles Emile was born in Montreuil, France back in 1844 to Benoit and Marie. He was home schooled by his mother. At a young age, he was taught to draw and paint. At 13 he built a small steam engine. In 1858, he worked at a company in Paris repairing and assembling optical and physics instruments.
In 1862, he went out on his own as a photographer. By 1873, he was giving scientific screening-lectures to students. He developed a prototype for a device out of a cookie box, applying for a patent in 1876. By 1910, his creations were outdated, he lost most of his belongings. Dejected and penniless he threw most of his irreplaceable works into the Seine River, lost forever.
What you may not know about Charles Emile Reynaud is that he was the inventor of the praxinoscope (an animation device) that was used as the first projected animated films, and the first known film perforations. It predated the cinematographe by Auguste and Louis Lumiere’s performances by several years. Until tomorrow keep a smile on your face, it will make people wonder what you’ve been up to
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