[1] This day commemorates the debut of Charles-Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin in Paris in 1892.
However, his public exhibition of animation went down in the history of optical entertainment as barely predating live action films.
Such a celebration is an outstanding opportunity to put animated films in the limelight, making this art more accessible to the public.
Previous editions involved the work of animators such as Iouri Tcherenkov, Paul Driessen, Abi Feijo, Eric Ledune, Noureddin Zarrinkelk, Michel Ocelot, Nina Paley, Raoul Servais, Ihab Shaker and Gianluigi Toccafondo.
These films display an extraordinary range of techniques – drawing, painting, animating puppets and objects, using clay, sand, paper, and computer.