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Events in 1864 in animation.

Events

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    • According to the 1864 narrative of the British mathematician Charles Babbage, the thaumatrope was invented by the Irish geologist William Henry Fitton. Babbage had told Fitton how the astronomer John Herschel had challenged him to show both sides of a shilling at once. Babbage held the coin in front of a mirror, but Herschel showed how both sides were visible when the coin was spun on the table. A few days later Fitton brought Babbage a new illustration of the principle, consisting of a round disc of card suspended between two pieces of sewing silk. This disc had a parrot on one side and a cage at the other side. Babbage and Fitton made several different designs and amused some friends with them for a short while. They forgot about it until some months later they heard about the supposed invention of the thaumatrope by John Ayrton Paris.[1]
    • In 1864, the Dundee-based mechanic James Laing presented his motororoscope to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. The device allowed a relatively large amount of stereoscopic pictures to be pasted on the inside of a "revolving web" with slits, transported over two rollers to pass in front of stereoscopic eyepieces. The rectangular openings of the viewer were adapted to the shape and size of the slits to avoid flaring and to reduce flicker. The demonstrated picture sequence was photographed with wooden models, with a bit of white wool round a bendable wire representing smoke coming from a cottage chimney, a paper flag and mill fans of wood. The instrument "excited considerable interest" at this presentation.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Babbage, Charles (1864). Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. pp. 189.
  2. ^ Arts, Royal Scottish Society of (1864). Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Neill & Company.
  3. ^ Gray, Frank. "Smith, G.A. (1864-1959)". BFI Screenonlinee. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  4. ^ Gray, Frank. "George Albert Smith". Who's Who in Victorian Cinema. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  5. ^ Oppenheim, Janet (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 144. ISBN 0-521-34767-X.
  6. ^ Hall (1964), pp. 120–123.
  7. ^ Gray, Frank (2009), "The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), G.A. Smith and the Rise of the Edited Film in England", in Grieveson, Lee; Kramer, Peter (eds.), The Silent Cinema Reader, Routledge (published 2004), ISBN 978-0415252843
  8. ^ Hall (1964), p. 172.
  9. ^ Fields, Armond (1983). Henri Rivière. Henri Rivière (1st ed.). Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith/Peregrine Smith Books. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-87905-133-4. OCLC 9759446.
  10. ^ Catalogue, Henri Rivière: The Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888-1902), Watermarks Gallery, Pittsboro, NC, 1995.
  11. ^ Phillip Dennis Cate and Mary Shaw (eds), The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905, Rutgers University Press, 1996, pp.55-58 excerpted on line as Henri Riviere: Le Chat noir and 'Shadow Theatre'.
  12. ^ Jouvanceau, Pierre (2004). The Silhouette Film. Pagine di Chiavari. trans. Kitson. Genoa: Le Mani. ISBN 88-8012-299-1.
  13. ^ "Benjamin Rabier".
  14. ^ Olivier Calon, Benjamin Rabier, Paris, Tallandier, 2004 ISBN 2-84734-102-1
  15. ^ "Bienvenue à la Vache Qui Rit (1921)". National Institute of Industrial Property (France) (INPI) (in French). 12 January 2016. open the "+" beside "Combien de portions de...". Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  16. ^ Sutton, Charles William (1891). "Holden, Moses" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 121.
  17. ^ "Holden, Moses". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 23 September 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13494. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  18. ^ Stampfer, Simon (1833). Die stroboscopischen Scheiben; oder, Optischen Zauberscheiben: Deren Theorie und wissenschaftliche anwendung, erklärt von dem Erfinder [The stroboscopic discs; or optical magic discs: Its theory and scientific application, explained by the inventor] (in German). Vienna and Leipzig: Trentsensky and Vieweg. p. 2.
  19. ^ "Lectures". Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles (in French). Vol. III, no. 1. Brussels: l'Académie Royale. 1836. pp. 9–10.
  20. ^ "Stroboscopische Scheiben (optische Zauberscheiben)". Wiener Zeitung. 2 May 1833. p. 4.

Sources

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  • Hall, Trevor H. (1964). The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney. Gerald Duckworth.