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

A caricature of William Selig from the London ‘K & L Weekly’ publication.

Not only was he a well known and successful American film studio pioneer, he was also best friends with the king of the jungle. https://t.co/pvGOIlYXs8

A pivoted arm and a stylus traces a pattern in the soot of the smoky black disk, appearing on the screen as brilliant white lines.

Below, a ‘Cycloidotrope’ story in the Scientific American p390 19 December 1885.

‘Spirograph’ was made by Milton Bradley & Kenner. https://t.co/CSvJzT7eZe

1626
WILLEBRORD SNELL VAN ROIJEN (1580-1626)
This polymath professor at @UniLeiden discovers the law governing the refraction of light which is the principal of dioptrics, but did not publish it.

Later in 1703 Christiaan Huygens published the Snellius findings in ‘Dioptrica’.

Maurolycus concerns himself with light rays & their direction in the camera.

In the year he died, he published 'Photismi De Lumine Et Umbra'.

Portrait of Maurolycus is a line engraving by G. Guzzi after a portrait by Polidoro di Caravaggio. https://t.co/OoVWvwSTfW

Fevriers ‘Pillar Stereoscope’ provided an absurd 3D effect and enlarged the photographs being viewed, that “nothing can better represent natural objects.”

Turning a small knob causes an axis to rotate around which the ‘Stereoscopic Photographs’ are arranged. https://t.co/bJuOYuDalq

Used by many artists, the ‘Camera Obscura’ was popular with amateurs also and travellers anxious to keep visual journals of the countryside while on the Grand Tour.

And sometimes, we see the device highlighted within the actual art itself (Van Loo, Desmarees et al). https://t.co/Mag8tsjwve

From other works by Sandby, the woman has been identified as Lady Frances Scott, an amateur artist of some repute. She is seen sketching a view with the help of a ‘Camera Obscura’.

The design of this optical device I believe, is that of a Storer ‘Royal Delineator’. https://t.co/B5TYyeC2FY

1780
CAMERA OBSCURA ‘IN’ ART
PAUL SANDBY (1731-1809)
Considered the ‘father of watercolour’, Sandby has depicted in his painting ‘Rosslyn Castle, Midlothian’ from ca.1780, a camera being used by a lady.

THREE CENTURIES OF HOME THEATRE
The ‘Magic Lantern’ was once the cinema of the 17th, 18th & 19th centuries.

It was once as common in homes as 4K home theatre is today.

The tin box with a chimney was a vital component that made up the art of seeing pictures 'move'.

Melhuish became Honorary Secretary to the Amateur Photographic Association, formed in 1861 and in 1873 he was named ‘Photographer Royal’ to the Shah of Persia (below) following his visit to London during that year. -30- https://t.co/LRQ9jGtIvB