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may 26, 1877 - Praxinoscope: The First Animated Projection

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The first animated projection (screening) was created in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud, who was a French science teacher and invented the Praxinoscope, the successor to the zoetrope and uses a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.

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may 26, 1877
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~ 148 years ago

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