Items tagged pre-cinema moving images in MV Collections
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Phenakistoscope Discs - post 1832
Two double-sided phenakistoscope discs featuring sequential still images. They are components of the phenakistoscope, an animation device. These discs were interchangeable and various s ...
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Painting - Chinese Man & Boy with Peepshow, circa 1800-1900
Hand painted picture of a Chinese peepshow depicting a boy looking through the viewing aperture of the lower box. The operator can be seen pulling some strings at the back of the box, w ...
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Postcard - Man & Girl Looking at Moving Images with a Praxinoscope Theatre, circa 1879
Modern postcard of an earlier engraving, showing a man and girl looking at a Praxinoscope Theatre.The man is looking through the viewer of the theatre which allows him to see the animat ...
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Engraving - 'Dioptrics', Unknown Date
Print, which appears to have been torn out of a book, showing images relating to the refraction of light through lenses. It features the camera obscura, magic lanterns and lantern slide ...
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Transparency - Roger Cummins with Pre-Cinema Object, Scienceworks, Spotswood, Victoria, ci ...
35mm mounted colour transparency part of a collection of images relating to Scienceworks. The images depict exterior views of the building, exhibitions, events and staff, mostly shot by ...
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Transparency - Installing Objects, Scienceworks, Spotswood, Victoria, 1992
35mm mounted colour transparency that is part of a collection of images relating to Scienceworks. The images depict exterior views of the building, exhibitions, events and staff, mostly ...
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Praxinoscope - Glass Mirrors, Emile Reynaud, 'Le Praxinoscope', post 1889
Three glass mirrors from a praxinoscope. The praxinoscope, invented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1876 was part of a range of popular philosophical or optical toys created in the 19th ce ...
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