Accession number
PML 88627
Published
Paris : [publisher not identified], approximately 1860.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Title from inside of lid.
Date from Stafford and Terpak.
Zoetrope comprising a drum, animation strips, and a blue wooden spindle base. The cylindrical blue cardboard drum, gilt, has 15 slots cut around the edge, with pictorial title label pasted on lid; 36 two-sided numbered animation strips, mostly colored on one side only, and each containing figures, such as ships, monkeys, elephants, wood-choppers, clowns, etc., in successive stages of a movement. By changing the animation strips and twirling the drum on its spindle base, you get 72 different moving pictures.
A pre-film animation device, the daedaleum, was first created by William George Horner ca. 1833. A variant, the zoetrope, was invented around 1860. It had viewing slits on a level above the pictures, which allowed the use of easily replaceable strips of images - and viewing of the animation by several people at the same time.
"Démonstration. Cet appareil trés simple donne une illustion complète de la photographie animée. En imprimant à la boîte un movement de rotation sur son pivot, après avoir au préalable vissé celui-ci sur son pied, le spectateur, par un effet d'optique très naturel, c'est-à-dire en regardant simplement au travers des fentes pratiquée tout autour de la boîte, arrive à voir se mouvoir les sujets représentés sur les différentes vues"--inside lid.
"N[?] 1611"--in black ink on label pasted under foot of spindle base.
Date from Stafford and Terpak.
Zoetrope comprising a drum, animation strips, and a blue wooden spindle base. The cylindrical blue cardboard drum, gilt, has 15 slots cut around the edge, with pictorial title label pasted on lid; 36 two-sided numbered animation strips, mostly colored on one side only, and each containing figures, such as ships, monkeys, elephants, wood-choppers, clowns, etc., in successive stages of a movement. By changing the animation strips and twirling the drum on its spindle base, you get 72 different moving pictures.
A pre-film animation device, the daedaleum, was first created by William George Horner ca. 1833. A variant, the zoetrope, was invented around 1860. It had viewing slits on a level above the pictures, which allowed the use of easily replaceable strips of images - and viewing of the animation by several people at the same time.
"Démonstration. Cet appareil trés simple donne une illustion complète de la photographie animée. En imprimant à la boîte un movement de rotation sur son pivot, après avoir au préalable vissé celui-ci sur son pied, le spectateur, par un effet d'optique très naturel, c'est-à-dire en regardant simplement au travers des fentes pratiquée tout autour de la boîte, arrive à voir se mouvoir les sujets représentés sur les différentes vues"--inside lid.
"N[?] 1611"--in black ink on label pasted under foot of spindle base.
Description
1 toy : color and b&w illustrations (lithographs) ; 8 x 76 cm (strips); 24 cm in diameter and 13.7 cm high (drum)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
In modern blue cloth box, gray plush lined, gilt title on spine, by Julia P.Wightman.
Classification
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