Developing Stop Motion Animation

Charles-Emile Reynaud was born on December 8th 1844 in Montreuil and was a French inventor, responsible for the first animated cartoons. In 1877 he created the Praxinoscope, an animation device much more advanced than the Zoetrope. It was similar to the Zoetrope in that i used a strip of images that had been altered slightly, but instead of having small slits around the outside, it had an inner circle, made up solely of mirrors, placed so the reflection was brighter and less distorted than that of a Zoetrope.
Then, in 1888 Reynaud developed he Theatre Optique, an improved version of his Praxinoscope that was capable of projecting images onto a screen from a longer roll of pictures. This allowed him to show hand drawn animated cartoons to larger audiences.