This next invention was created in 1877, by a man named Charles-Emile Reynaud. Reynaud was a French inventor and was responsible for the first projected animated cartoons. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the 'Théâtre Optique' in December 1888. Then, on 28 October 1892 he projected the first animated film in public (Pauvre Pierrot) at the Musée Grévin in Paris. This is also notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. Reynaud was born 8 December 1844 and died 9 January 1918.
The Praxinoscope
The Praxinoscope was an animation device, and was named the 'successor' to the Zoetrope. Just like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors. These were placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images. This would produce the illusion of motion, however it had a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered.
Did you know?
Animation is where it is today thanks to these little changes that these historical people made to simple inventions to make them more and more complex- and a lot better!
READ MORE AT: http://www.earlycinema.com/technology/praxinoscope.html
The Praxinoscope was an animation device, and was named the 'successor' to the Zoetrope. Just like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors. These were placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images. This would produce the illusion of motion, however it had a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered.
Did you know?
Animation is where it is today thanks to these little changes that these historical people made to simple inventions to make them more and more complex- and a lot better!
READ MORE AT: http://www.earlycinema.com/technology/praxinoscope.html