Items tagged pre-cinema moving images in MV Collections
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Projector - Perken, Son & Rayment, Magic Lantern, 'Optimus', 1887-1900
Projector was used to view lantern slides. The Optimus trade name was initially registered in 1885 by the company Lejeune & Perken and was continued when the company name changed to Per ...
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Flick Book - Bon Marche, 'Cinematograph de Poche', Man Walking Past Train, circa 1900
Flick book, produced in France for the department store Bon Marche, showing a photographic sequence of a man with a bicycle walking past a stationary train. If the viewer flicks the pag ...
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Flick Book - 'Cinematograph Living Pictures', Chimney Sweep, Germany, circa 1920
Flick book, produced in Germany, showing a simple animation of a chimney sweep bobbing up and down a chimney. The flick book is made up of a number of pages, each having a related but s ...
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Projector - Magic Lantern, Biunial, circa 1880-1910
Incomplete wood and brass projector was used to view lantern slides. It is of rather crude workmanship, with visible screws used to put the panels together. It is by an unknown maker. ...
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Projector - Walter Tyler, Magic Lantern, Biunial, circa 1890
Projector used to view lantern slides. It was manufactured by Walter Tyler. Tyler, who began as a lantern exhibitor, opened a shop in 115 Waterloo Road, London in 1885. This particular ...
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Print - Theatre Performance of Pepper's Ghost, Showing Audience & Production of Illusion, ...
Print showing John Henry 'Professor' Pepper creating his ghost illusion in a theatre. This image is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Geometric Pattern, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a repeated coloured geometric pattern. The disc is a component of the phenakistoscope, an animation device. These discs were interc ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Leapfrogging Men, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of two men leapfrogging each other. The disc is a component of the phena ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Man Hitting Ball with Racquet, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of a man hitting a ball with a racquet. The disc is a component of the p ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Classical Figure Holding 'Horn of Plenty', post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of a classical female figure holding the 'horn of plenty' from which fl ...
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