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

The modern digitisation of this particular manuscript has turned these illustrations into a ‘flip book of the Middle Ages’.

Motion is conveyed because each image depicts every step of the poem's story and, are successive, giving the appearance of a series of film frames. https://t.co/ynkQF8yi7o

A special feature of these drawings is their modern narrative character and the richness of detail. The fight scenes in particular appear like short cartoons.

PG-13 — Parents Strongly Cautioned: Violence, blood, guts, gore. https://t.co/4LGGY0JRTc

The Codex Palatinus Germanicus 67 is a late medieval manuscript from the former Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg Germany.

It belongs to the Codices Palatini Germanici, the German-language manuscripts of the Palatina, kept in the Heidelberg University Library since 1816. https://t.co/nK2ti6FhUE

1880
The cover of ‘The Illustrated Police News’ 14 August, 1880 issue. The man reaches up to turn the lens in this room ‘Camera Obscura’ depiction.

Detective camera funny business at Coney Island.

An unidentified artist, Jack and Beverly Wilgus Collection via Luminous-Lint.

Pictured is a transparent oil on glass by Thomas Gainsborough of a coastal scene w/ sailing and rowing boats in 1783, likely one of his ‘Show Box’ transparencies.

One of Gainsborough’s purposes for his ‘Show Box’ was to see and explore different effects of lighting. https://t.co/W2XJQNwx1G

1893
A Sciopticon Lantern illustration by the L.J. Marcy Co. of Philadelphia taken out of ‘The Art of Projection and Complete Magic Lantern Manual’ by Expert, Published by E. A. Beckett, London, 1893, on pp3, 4.

Because the page was white, the character would appear 'above' the page.

This was due to the latent image on our retina. https://t.co/cUUtNqNzu1

When stared at for a few seconds, the image would be emblazoned on the back of the eye (retina) and remain for the same period.

The viewer would then turn to the next page which was white, and would see the ghoulish character dance on the page as the eye moved. https://t.co/OBwmOQMg9Y

1669
ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691)
Boyle (below) describes a "portable darkened room" in his 'Of the Systematicall and Cosmical Qualities of Things’ (Boyle, R., Oxford, England, 1669).

This was a portable box camera which he constructed, and then described.

Below, a common flea (r) seen & drawn by Ledermüller in 1760 with his ‘Camera Obscura’ with ‘solar microscope’ lens (l).

What a wonderful discovery the Camera Obscura was in leading the way to tremendous imagery bringing us closer to the Cinematography we enjoy today. https://t.co/9B46f0yijp