Phenakistoscope disc with handle
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
- Made:
- circa 1830s in unknown place
- inventor:
- Joseph Plateau
- publisher:
- Alphonse Giroux
Phenakistoscope. With eight double sided picture discs, 180mm-224mm diameter (some badly damaged from adhesive). Black painted heavy card disc with rectangular peripheral perforations. Spindle with wooden handle. 1. Dancer with cornucopea/cherub and female figure 2. Man with bat and ball/two dancers 3. sawmill/blacksmith 4. Man bowing to woman, tumbler/blacksmith 5. hoop and ball/leapfrog 6. Girl with cymbals/two boys jumping back-to-back 7. Wood chopping/woman birching boy 8. Punch/leaping through hoop from horseback.
Phenakistoscope and disc, published by Alphonse Giroux, c. 1830s.
This Phenakistoscope disc shows a man at an anvil. The Phenakistoscope was invented in 1833 by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau (1801-1883). It is held with the printed side of the disc facing a mirror. The disc is spun and the viewer looks at its reflection through the slits on the disc's circumference: the drawings appear to move.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7181
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), wood (unidentified) and cardboard
- Measurements:
-
overall: 355 mm 230 mm,
- type:
- phenakistoscope and optical toy
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
Parts
Phenakistoscope Disc
Phenakistoscope Disc
Phenakistoscope Disc
Phenakistoscope Disc
Phenakistoscope Disc
Phenakistoscope Disc
Phenakistoscope Disc
Phenakistoscope with handle
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy) , wood (unidentified) , steel (metal) and paper (fibre product)
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7181/9
- type:
- phenakistoscope and optical toy