Zoopraxiscope

Zoopraxiscope

The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes. A second series of discs, made in 1892-94, used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically, then colored by hand. Some of the animated images are very complex, featuring multiple combinations of sequences of animal and human movement.

The device appears to have been one of the primary inspirations for Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson's Kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system. Images from all of the known seventy-one surviving zoopraxiscope discs have recently been reproduced in the book "Eadweard Muybridge: The Kingston Museum Bequest" (The Projection Box, 2004).

ee also

*History of cinema
*List of film formats

* Electrotachyscope
* Episcotister
* Flip book
* Phenakistoscope, a similar device
* Praxinoscope
* Strobe light
* Tachometer
* Thaumatrope
* Zoetrope

External links

* [http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/6/063.html Dead medium: Muybridge's zoopraxiscope]
* [http://encarta.msn.com/media_461518398/Zoopraxiscope.html Microsoft Encarta pictures of zoopraxiscope glass discs]
* [http://www.kingston.gov.uk/browse/leisure/museum/museum_exhibitions/muybridge/machinery_and_equipment/zoopraxiscope.htm Pictures and details of the zoopraxiscope held by the Kingston Museum and Heritage Service]


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  • Zoopraxiscope — o [ o]*prax i*scope, n. [Zo[ o] + Gr. ? a doing, an acting (from ? to do) + scope.] An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Zoopraxiscope — Disque support des images résultat de la projection Le Zoopraxiscope est l un des premiers dispositifs permettant la v …   Wikipédia en Français

  • zoopraxiscope —    A moving picture projector invented by Eadweard Muybridge (English American, 1830 1904). Muybridge pioneered the taking of series of photographs employing a series of cameras. He printed these as sheets of sequenced exposures. In order to… …   Glossary of Art Terms

  • zoopraxiscope — Cinematograph Cin e*mat o*graph, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + graph.] 1. an older name for a {movie projector}, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Zoöpraxiscope — Bildfolge eines galoppierenden Rennpferds. von Eadweard Muybridge (1887) gezeichnetes Muli von Eadweard Muyb …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • zoopraxiscope — /zoh euh prak seuh skohp /, n. Motion Pictures. an early type of motion picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which the images were drawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotating …   Universalium

  • zoopraxiscope — noun An instrument developed by in the 1870s, similar to the phenakistoscope. The instrument involves a disc that includes serial pictures being rotated in front of a light source, projecting them upon a screen, to exhibit the natural movements… …   Wiktionary

  • zoopraxiscope — n. early type of projector used to rapidly display a series of still photographs …   English contemporary dictionary

  • zoopraxiscope — zo·o·prax·i·scope …   English syllables

  • zoopraxiscope — ˌzōəˈpraksəˌskōp noun Etymology: zo + praxis + scope; from the fact that it usually showed pictures of a moving animal : a motion picture projector invented about 1882 …   Useful english dictionary

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