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

Then the Photograph made its introduction to ‘Chromolithography’ in 1858, as a new format for the lantern slide.

The majority of slide manufacturers from that point began to produce photo-slides, replacing the poorer-quality hand-drawn and painted slides. https://t.co/xSZpYgmeo4

The "writing on the wall" described in Daniel Chapter 5 v5-29 appears to be projected from a mirror or lantern, informing King Belshazzar that he has been found wanting.

This makes Rembrandt's painting one of the first ‘Phantasmagorias. https://t.co/yAGgYn9Apg

Roget presented a scientific paper detailing his studies and called it `Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects'. The phenomenon itself was not only known in the 19th century.

Aristotle himself spoke of ‘after-images’. https://t.co/oL1H6l5DUh

Even Plato's cave-dream-images strike a tremendous similarity to today's Cinema. https://t.co/HNQE6K7u5r

They also made barometers, microscopes, ‘Kaleidoscopes’, thermometers, spectacles, and ‘Claude Glasses’, in addition to slides.

After Philip Carpenter’s death in 1833, his sister Mary continued the business keeping the name ‘Carpenter & Westley’. https://t.co/B6odSDl4id

1667
ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691)
A founding member of the Royal Society, Boyle in his 'Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours' (Boyle, R., Geneva, Switzerland, 1667, ch.36) mentions silver chloride turning dark "in the air".

1840
JEREMIAH GURNEY (1812-1886)
Gurney was born in NY state & worked in the jewellery trade before learning Photography, and set up what was known as a ‘Daguerrean Saloon’ on Broadway.

The sketch below depicting what the interior looked like in 1840. Leslie & Hooper engravers.

In 1842, Edward Anthony opened his ‘Daguerreotype’ gallery in New York and shortly thereafter Henry came aboard.

Henry T. Anthony (1814-1884)
Edward Anthony (1819-1888) https://t.co/XkU0xHtswB

The cards were first illustrated & engraved and finally coloured by hand. Varying scenes of the sea, rural cottages, dales, castles, as well as rustic scenes, were fully interchangeable and allowed the user to arrange them in any order thereby creating a near-endless assortment. https://t.co/ObkpQJKFUk