In all of these very early moving pictures of six seconds or so the thumbnail is the spoiler. What you see in the thumbnail picture is very much the moving picture with.
"Zimm. Boum. Boum!" (which I have also seen as Zim, Boum, Boum) was directed by Charles-Emile Reynaud. It's origins are 1877 or 1878 per some other sources. It's a Praxinoscope animation of a green-suited boy wearing a drum and cymbal.
A praxinoscope is an animation device invented in 1877 and was used for early image projection. It could be projected to be viewed, but it wasn't a motion picture because no pictures were taken. Anything we see on screen today is a later recording of a praxinoscope projection.
"Zimm. Boum. Boum!" (which I have also seen as Zim, Boum, Boum) was directed by Charles-Emile Reynaud. It's origins are 1877 or 1878 per some other sources. It's a Praxinoscope animation of a green-suited boy wearing a drum and cymbal.
A praxinoscope is an animation device invented in 1877 and was used for early image projection. It could be projected to be viewed, but it wasn't a motion picture because no pictures were taken. Anything we see on screen today is a later recording of a praxinoscope projection.
