Precursors of film are concepts and devices that have much in common with the later art and techniques of cinema. Precursors of film are often referred...

The image on each card is made by contact printing each frame of the original 70 mm film. Rather than being bound into a booklet, the cards are attached...

the final scene begins in the middle of a conversation about cinema precursors, including the thaumatrope. In the 2013 video game BioShock Infinite the...

transformations (e.g., of an angel into a devil) and of course, lewd pictures.[citation needed] Raree shows were precursors of toy theatres, with movable...

to have been one of the primary inspirations for Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson's Kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system...

appearance of ghosts and apparent decapitations. Modern-day horror films often take up many of the techniques and motifs of stop trick films, and phantasmagoria...

metal precursors of film, formulated cleans and etching products, and delivery equipment for the semiconductor industry. It is a subsidiary of Merck Group...

described in the 24 January 1878 issue of the journal Nature. Praxinoscope Strobe light History of film History of film technology Approximate date "O. Anschütz"...

development in the history of cinema. The invention aimed to present the illusion of motion. The patent was filed by Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

peak) inspired by the shape of a mountain (volcano). In wayang, gunungan are special figures in the form of pictures of mountains and its contents. Gunungan...

pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that...

simple (homemade) lensless cameras where photographic film or photographic paper is used. Rays of light travel in straight lines and change when they are...

flat pictures that also has the property of enhancing the sense of the depth shown in the picture. It consists of a large magnifying lens through which the...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stereoscopes. Stereo slide viewer Precursors of film Les Diableries View-Master Kinematoscope Haploscope Zograscope Virtual...

several years, until it was eclipsed in popularity by the photographic film projector of the Lumière brothers. The praxinoscope was copied by several other...

peep show, peepshow, or, a peep booth is a presentation of a live sex show or pornographic film which is viewed through a viewing slot. Several historical...

Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia. However, in countries like the United States, it is often used...

History of animation History of film List of film formats List of multiple discoveries Kaleidoscope Optical toys Praxinoscope Precursors of film Strobe...

screening of the cinematograph on 28 December 1895, which has long been seen as the birth of film. The realized films had 300 to 700 transparent pictures of successive...

Around a Corner is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887. It was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue...

cinematic projection before the advent of video: it created the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a...

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the first form of animation to employ a linear sequence of images rather than circular (as in the older phenakistoscope). The German film pioneer, Max Skladanowsky...

kinds of entertainment. Some forms of theatrical entertainment would involve the screening of moving images and can be regarded as precursors of film. In...

A chromatrope is a type of magic lantern slide that produces dazzling, colorful geometrical patterns set in motion by rotating two painted glass discs...

Cherryh's Foreigner universe Precursors, a fictional race (now extinct) of ancient beings in the board game Cosmic Encounter Precursors, a fictional alien race...

music forms some of the basis of modern opera. Chinese shadow puppetry is shown in the 1994 Zhang Yimou film To Live. The origins of Taiwan's shadow puppetry...

cinematography and silent film of moving images were invented. Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu made the 1898 film Walking Troubles of Organic Hemiplegy...

praxinoscope and flip book a.o. are often seen as precursors of film, leading to the invention of cinema at the end of the 19th century. In the 21st century, this...

system similar to early film projectors. It was the first projection device to use an intermittent movement, which became the basis of many cine cameras and...