Items tagged pre-cinema moving images in MV Collections
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Dancing Couple, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of a couple dancing, the woman performing a pirouette. The disc is a com ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Ball Passing Through Hoop, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of what appears to be a ball passing through a hoop. The disc is a compo ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Playing Leapfrog, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc featuring ten slightly different images of two boys/men playing leapfrog. The disc is a component of the phenakistoscope, an animation device. These discs were inte ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Windmill Turning Crank, post 1832
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 ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Tightrope Walker on Wire, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of a tightrope walker bouncing on a wire. The disc is a component of the ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Jumping Frogs, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc featuring an inner and outer circle of jumping frogs, each in a slightly different position. It appears to be a cruder version of a similar disc produced by Ackerma ...
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Phenakistoscope Disc - Musician & Dancer, post 1832
Phenakistoscope disc, part of a set of ten, featuring a sequence of related but slightly different static images of a dancer and a musician. The disc is a component of the phenakistosco ...
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Engraving - 'Raree Show at Lin-Sin-Choo', T. Allom, circa 1840
Hand-coloured engraving showing the public scene of a raree (or peep) show in China. A peepshow is a closed, or partially closed box with one or more viewing holes. Interchangeable im ...
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Slide Binders - 'Specialist', Magic Lantern, circa 1900
Box containing pre-gummed strips of 'Specialist' binding tape, used to edge magic lantern slides. Measuring 13/32 inches wide, by 13 1/2 inches long there was sufficient tape to bind 20 ...
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Book - W. Hooper, 'Rational Recreations', 4th Ed, 1801
'Rational Recreations' by W. Hooper, first published in 1774. The book's chapters cover such areas as Electricity, Magnetism, Pneumatics and Pyrotechnics, with a series of experiments t ...
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