Pauvre Pierrot
Pauvre Pierrot (aka Poor Pete) is a French short animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1891 and released in 1892. It consists of 500 individually painted images and lasts about 15 minutes originally. 

It is one of the first animated films ever made, and alongside "Un bon bock" (directed in 1888 of which only few images survive at the Cinémathèque française) and "Le Clown et ses chiens" was exhibited on 28 October 1892 when Charles-Émile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin. It was the first film to demonstrate the Theatre Optique system developed by Reynaud in 1888. "Pauvre Pierrot" is also believed to be the first known usage of film perforations. The combined performance of all three films was known as "Pantomimes Lumineuses".

These were the first animated pictures publicly exhibited by means of picture bands. Reynaud gave the entire presentation himself by manipulating the images.
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