Animation slowly started to progress and different invention similar to the zoetrope were created. The pioneer Emile Reynaud, was responsible for rising era of cartoon animation. He created the Praxinoscope in 1877. This was an animation device the inheritor to the zoetrope. It was similar to the zoetrope as it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. In the cylinder there was a central drum of mirrors which were equally apart between the axis and the picture strip. This meant the toys revolved the reflection of each picture seen in the mirror drum and appeared static without any complex stop-start mechanisms. The illustrated images blended together to give a clear bright picture that didn't flicker nor distort. Three years later he then projected the first animated film in public,Pauvre Pierrot. The animation consisted of 500 individually painted images and originally lasted 15 minutes. You may think how he made it public and show the animation to more than one person at a time. He did this with transparent pictures with an oil lamp as a light source behind to illuminate the images. Then, the mirror reflections passed the image through a lens where it could be focused on a static background(projected).