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A Disappointing Continuation

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I absolutely didn't realise this was the first animation to be created and be shown to audiences, until it was recommended by Youtube for me to give this a watch. Even if the speed wasn't on point, there was no sound or we don't hear the characters talking in this short film, it really stood out anyways! I have to say, fairplay to Émile Reynaud for creating this because like, it really is a good introduction to animation that we know today and the fact, even if it was plain and simple, it really is eye-catching plus interesting. This little short would be good to watch if you wanna learn baby steps of early animation works or have nothing to do but wanna try to watch something new. I give this a 8/10!

everything is said the history of this film. I myself was amazed about the colors and the drawing; it is so delicate and fragile. if the speed is clumsy, it is not adequate to comping to future animation films. I thin this film was something that people who saw it back 1900s found it fresh and invigorating.

If I had watched this short movie, I'd never have thought that it comes from the year 1892. I've seen way worse animation from 75 years later. It's just so different than everything else that was shot before it. It's considerably longer and people must have reacted with surprise when they held a colorful drawing in their hands and then they see something quite similar moving and telling a story.All the characters are nicely animated, especially their dresses, gestures and face expressions. It's the funny story of a girl between two men. The fact that they all look a lot like ghosts was possibly not intended, but fits the whole moonlight setting nicely. Which is the right one for her? Go see for yourself.

J. Stuart Blackton's 'Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)' is generally held as the first animated film. Indeed, it was the first animated film made on motion-picture film, but such history is nevertheless unfair to Émile Reynaud, who, fourteen years earlier, was projecting moving animated images to delighted audiences. 'Pauvre Pierrot (1892)' is one of the director's few surviving works (most were, in a fit of frustration, discarded into the Seine by the director himself), and such a colourful and charming curio remains a delight to behold.Reynaud animated each frame himself – 500 in total (36 metres long) – and extended the film to 12-15 minutes by personally manipulating the picture-bands during the projection. The story told is a simple one: Pierrot and Arlequin compete for the romantic attention of Colombine, a beautiful maiden. One potential suitor attempts to charm the good lady with a lute performance, but his competitor goes one better with a baton or sword of some sort.Reynaud's moving picture show, billed as "Théâtre Optique" or "Pantomimes Lumineuses," included a triple-bill of three films: 'Pauvre Pierrot,' 'Un bon bock (1892),' and 'Le Clown et ses chiens (1892).' One contemporary newspaper reported that Reynaud "creates characters with expressions and movements so perfect that they give the complete illusion of life." The show was initially a great success, but, in 1918, Reynaud died a poor man. His delicate work, prone to rapid degradation, could not compete with the Lumière brothers' cinematograph, which depicted real-life, and not merely an animated approximation.