Un bon bock

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name = Un bon bock


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caption = Promotional poster for "Pantomimes Lumineuses"
director = Émile Reynaud
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music = Gaston Paulin
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released = October 28 1892
runtime = 15 minutes (approx)
country = France
language = Silent
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imdb_id = 0000004

"Un bon bock" (aka "A Good Beer") is an 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud. It consists of 700 individually painted images and lasts about 15 minutes cite web | url=http://www.victorian-cinema.net/reynaud.htm | title=Charles-Émile Reynaud | work=Who's Who of Victorian Cinema | |accessdate=2007-03-11 |format= HTML ]

It is one of the first animated films ever made and was the first to be screened on Reynaud's modified praxinoscope, the optical theatre. [ cite web | url=http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/mountroyal/Hoffman/Animation/Reference/History.html | title=The History of Animation | work= | |accessdate=2007-03-11 |format= HTML ]

Alongside Le Clown et ses chiens and Pauvre Pierrot it was broadcast in October 1892 when Emile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin. The combined performance of all three films was known as Pantomimes Lumineuses. These were the first animated pictures publicly broadcast by means of picture bands. Reynaud gave the whole presentation himself manipulating the images. ] Unfortauntly, no copy exists, as Reynaud threw all but two of his picture bands in to the seine. ]

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