Meaning of phenakistiscope | Babel Free

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“Here are the intricately colored discs and paper strips of images that needed only devices like a zoetrope or phenakistiscope to become animated spectacles: a horse will jump through a hoop; a sailor will blow a bubble that becomes the moon.”

“In 1829 he [Joseph Plateau] constructed a circular device, the phénakistiscope, on which sixteen pictures were mounted (Figure 1.5).”

“Motion picture prehistory is documented by hand-colored phénakistiscope (1832) and Fantascope (1833) discs, by zoetrope strips (c1867), and by woodcuts showing peep shows;”

“Throughout the early twentieth century, [Félix] Regnault wrote about cinema and its history, a history he saw as an evolution originating from both science and popular entertainment, beginning with the concept of the persistence of the image on the retina, [Joseph] Plateau’s phénakistiscope, and [Émile] Reynaud’s praxinoscope, and reaching its apex with the invention of cinema by [Étienne-Jules] Marey, whom Regnault referred to as le père du du cinéma (Félix Regnault, “L’évolution du cinéma,” La revue scientifique [1922]: 7985).”

“[Joseph] Plateau sent one of his phénakistiscopes as a present to Michael Faraday.”

“For example, in the French original of Machine animale, [Étienne-Jules] Marey writes that Mathias Marie Duval used a phénakistiscope;”

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