Le Clown et ses chiens

Le Clown et ses chiens (literally: Clown and his dogs) is a short French animated film in 1892. The film is directed by Émile Reynaud . It consists of 300 individually painted images and takes about 15 minutes.

It is one of the first animated films ever made ​​and was with Pauvre Pierrot and Un bon bock screened in October 1892 when Emile Reynaud his Théâtre Optique opened at the Musee Grevin . The combined performance of all three films was known as Pantomimes Lumineuses . These were the first animated images that were shown through video tapes in public. Reynaud gave the whole presentation itself by constantly manipulating the images.

The film is now considered a lost film . There are no more copies of the film, because Reynaud, with the exception of two films, all the film webs in the Seine threw in a depressed mood.