Poor Pierrot (1892)

Name: Poor Pierrot
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Released: 1892-10-28
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Plot.

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

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Cast & Crew.

Gaston Paulin

Original Music Composer / Sound / Musical

Émile Reynaud

Director / Animation / Screenplay / Writer

Julien Pappé

Producer

Louis Morin

Lyricist

Media.

Details.

Release Date
October 28, 1892

Original Name
Pauvre Pierrot

Status
Released

Running Time
4m

This Movie Is About.

19th century

short

pierrot

arlequin

théâtre optique

les pantomimes lumineuses

Wiki.

Pauvre Pierrot (or Poor Pete) is a French short animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1891 and released in 1892. It consists of 500 individually painted images and lasts about 15 minutes originally.

It is one of the first animated films ever made, and alongside Un bon bock (directed in 1888 of which only few images survive at the Cinémathèque française) and Le Clown et ses chiens was exhibited on 28 October 1892 when Charles-Émile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin. It was the first film to demonstrate the Théâtre Optique system developed by Reynaud in 1888. Pauvre Pierrot is also believed to be the first known usage of film perforations. The combined performance of all three films was known as Pantomimes Lumineuses.

These were the first animated pictures publicly exhibited by means of picture bands. Reynaud gave the entire presentation himself by manipulating the images.