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Phenakistoscope Disc - Windmill Turning Crank, post 1832
Reg. No: ST 38018 4
- Summary:
- Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of what appears to be a windmill turning a wheel and crank. The disc is a component of the phenakistoscope, an animation device. These discs were interchangeable and various scenarios illustrating movement were available.
The set of10 phenakistoscope discs are associated with a Phenakistoscope.
The phenakistoscope disc has a number of regularly spaced slits in the circumference of the disc. To create the animation the disc is fitted onto a central handle; the viewer then faces a mirror, with the image likewise facing the mirror. To view the animation the disc is spun, and the viewer looks through the slits at the mirror.
The phenakistoscope was part of a range of popular philosophical or optical toys created in the 19th century. Like the phenakistoscope, most attempted to create the illusion of movement using a series of static images.
This phenakistoscope disc is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Australian and Victorian Governments in 1975. David Francis was the curator of the National Film and Sound Archive of the British Film Institute as well as being a co-founder of the Museum of the Moving Image in London, which was operational between 1988 and 1999. - Description:
- Hand circular light card in shape of disc with multicoloured repeating pattern in black.
- Description Of Content:
- This phenakistoscope disc features a sequence of related but slightly different static images of what appears to be a windmill turning a wheel and crank.
- Acquisition Information:
- Loan & Subsequent Donation from Australian Film Institute (AFI)
| Discipline: | Technology |
| Dimensions: | 1 mm (Height), 179 mm (Diameter) |
More information
| Tagged with: | pre-cinema moving images, animation, optical illusion devices, phenakistiscopes, phenakistoscopes |
| Themes this item is part of: | Francis Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Leisure Collection |
| Primary Classification: | RECREATION & TOURISM |
| Secondary Classification: | Amusements |
| Tertiary Classification: | optical devices |
| Inventor: | Mr Joseph Plateau, Belgium, 1832 |
| Inventor: | Simon von Stampfer, Austria, 1832 |
| Collector: | Mr David Francis, London, Middlesex, England, Great Britain, 1990 |
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