Émile Reynaud’s Poor Pierrot and Around the Beach Cabin were two of three short animated films, known as Pantomimes Lumineuses, to debut in 1892 at the Musée Grévin, Paris’s enormously popular wax museum. The Pantomimes Lumineuses were hand-painted on strips of perforated, shellacked gelatin and projected through Reynaud’s Théâtre Optique, a patented device consisting of spinning reels, mirrors, and two magic lanterns. Reynaud’s artistic and technological inventions reflect the way art and technology were both coincident and co-dependent. (The Théâtre Optique will be operated live on the weekends throughout the run of the exhibition. Check here for dates and times.)