The Praxinoscope was an animation device that was the successor to the Zoetrope. It was invented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1877. The concept of the device was similar to that of the Zoetrope and the Phenakistoscope, only with the Praxinoscope you didn't look through slits to see the "moving image". Instead, there was an inner circle of mirrors that were surrounded by a spinning cylinder that had sequential images attached to it. The user would look into the mirror to see the reflected pictures that would rapidly move to give the illusion of motion. Replacing the slits with the mirror meant that these images seemed more or less stationary in position, and there wasn't the flicker from the slits resulting in a brighter, less distorted image.
In 1889, Reynaud developed the Theatre Optique, which was an improved version of his Praxinoscope as it allowed for the images to be projected. Originally it was still limited to 12 or so pictures, but he later developed a way that a longer roll of images could be used, and this allowed him to show hand-drawn cartoons to large audiences with the projector. It soon dipped in popularity as the Lumiere brothers invented the photographic film projector.
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