 His "Pantomimes Lumineuses" series of animated films include "Pauvre Pierrot" and "Autour d'une cabine".Reynaud's Théâtre Optique predated Auguste and Louis Lumière's first commercial, public screening of the cinematograph on 28 December 1895, which has long been seen as the birth of film.The realized films had 300 to 700 transparent pictures of successive phases of moving figures with black backgrounds.