Accession number
PML 88630
Published
[Nuremberg] : E.[rnst] P.[lank], [ca. 1902]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Title and directions in German, French, and English on proscenium.
Kinematofor comprising a metal drum with a circular panel of 12 mirrors in the center, a wooden spindle to hold the drum, a proscenium with a cut-out square hole, and a black wooden case, lined in blue paper with a wheel-and-crank attached to the side; 12 one-sided colored animation strips, showing acrobats, clowns, children, frogs, and blacksmiths in successive stages of a movement. By changing the animation strips and rotating the drum by cranking the wheel you get 12 different moving pictures. The images on the paper strips are reflected in the central mirrors of the circular drum. The wheel turns the drum fast enough that the images appear to move when one looks through a magnifying glass set into the case.
A basic drum-like pre-moving-picture device with viewing slits, the Daedaleum, was created by William George Horner ca. 1833. A variant, the Zoëtrope, was invented around 1860. The Praxinoscope was an improvement on the Zoëtrope, replacing the viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors. It was patented in 1877 by Emile Reynaud. This animation device, the Kinematofor, was developed on the Zoëtrope around 1902 by the Ernst Plank tin toy manufacturer in Nuremberg, Germany.
"Gebrauchs-Anweisung. Der Kinematofor wird, wie obenstehende Abbildung deutlich zeigt, zusammengestellt. Bei dem Einsetzen der Bilderstreifen müssen die beiden Enden derselben genau an die im Apparat etwas vorstehende Blechhülse anschliessen. Die Wirkung des Kinematofors wird bedeutend erhöht, wenn der Apparat bei Gebrauch in nächste Nähe eines Fensters gebracht wird, damit die Bilder recht hell beleuchtet werden."--proscenium
"Fabrik-E.P.Marke"--proscenium
Each strip marked in lower left corner: E.P. Dep.116 2.
Kinematofor comprising a metal drum with a circular panel of 12 mirrors in the center, a wooden spindle to hold the drum, a proscenium with a cut-out square hole, and a black wooden case, lined in blue paper with a wheel-and-crank attached to the side; 12 one-sided colored animation strips, showing acrobats, clowns, children, frogs, and blacksmiths in successive stages of a movement. By changing the animation strips and rotating the drum by cranking the wheel you get 12 different moving pictures. The images on the paper strips are reflected in the central mirrors of the circular drum. The wheel turns the drum fast enough that the images appear to move when one looks through a magnifying glass set into the case.
A basic drum-like pre-moving-picture device with viewing slits, the Daedaleum, was created by William George Horner ca. 1833. A variant, the Zoëtrope, was invented around 1860. The Praxinoscope was an improvement on the Zoëtrope, replacing the viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors. It was patented in 1877 by Emile Reynaud. This animation device, the Kinematofor, was developed on the Zoëtrope around 1902 by the Ernst Plank tin toy manufacturer in Nuremberg, Germany.
"Gebrauchs-Anweisung. Der Kinematofor wird, wie obenstehende Abbildung deutlich zeigt, zusammengestellt. Bei dem Einsetzen der Bilderstreifen müssen die beiden Enden derselben genau an die im Apparat etwas vorstehende Blechhülse anschliessen. Die Wirkung des Kinematofors wird bedeutend erhöht, wenn der Apparat bei Gebrauch in nächste Nähe eines Fensters gebracht wird, damit die Bilder recht hell beleuchtet werden."--proscenium
"Fabrik-E.P.Marke"--proscenium
Each strip marked in lower left corner: E.P. Dep.116 2.
Description
1 toy : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 64.5 x 5.5 cm (strips); 24.5 x 24 x 12.2 cm (case); 22 x 22 cm (proscenium)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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