Pre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿さんのイラストまとめ

In fig. 170 below the ‘Biopticon’ in its projection state, from ‘Living Pictures: Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working’, Henry Vaux Hopwood, Optician & Photographic Trades Review, London, 1899, p154. -30- https://t.co/QAhzDOnOkj

Here is the same illustration from Fulgence Marion in 1869, turned into a colourful #animation. https://t.co/bGeziC9dyB

‘Optical Boxes’ were varnished wood decorative enclosures with painted colour engravings with a magnifying lens approx. 12 cm in diameter having a tilted mirror perhaps 22 x 17.5 cm and seven successive frames for horizontally arranging the perspective views. https://t.co/gIPYY9eRsh

TL Portrait & autograph of Pierre Jacquet-Droz
TR A figure of Cupid drawn by the drawing figure
BL Jacquet-Droz writing automaton
BR View of the mechanism from behind -- all from the brochure issued by the Society of History and Archæology, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. https://t.co/KyBHymaS4E

A diagram of the Farnum ‘Viviscope’, from ‘Living Pictures - Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working’, Henry Vaux Hopwood, Optician & Photographic Trades Review, London, 1899, fig. 46, on p41. https://t.co/pdSDzz5lhv

A close look at any of her work and we see how Reiniger's animation influenced other animators including Mary Blair. Blair came up with ideas for Disney classics like ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ’Sleeping Beauty’ & ’Peter Pan’.

Below is Blairs' concept art from Disney's ‘Cinderella’. https://t.co/xg8EAOhI2l

This illustration of the ‘Auxanoscope’ [fig. 65) taken from ‘La Pratique Des Projections’, H. Fourtier, Gauthier-Villars Editeur, Paris, 1892, p140.

Right is Trouve working in another of his invention, from a printed page. https://t.co/gse42Ei9pl

1730
MARTIN ENGELBRECHT (1684-1756)
A celebrated engraver of his time, Engelbrecht (l) dominated the print trade in Augsburg.

Some of his best work was with optical prints. He used these in his perspective boxes and miniature theatres (r).

EUCLID (EUCLEIDES) (fl. ca. 325-265) B.C.
Euclid studied optics and taught that each eye perceives a different image and that these two images are "fused" to form the "whole".

He studied and taught on optics, mirrors, including both flat and spherical mirrors.

SHADOW CINEMA ON CAVE WALLS
PLATO (428-347) B.C.
This Greek philosopher writes that rays of light are emitted from the eyes, and that objects receive these rays. He also philosophizes about shadows on cave walls.