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 gl...
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device for depicting the movement of animals through rotating images
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• (n.) 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 of animals, and the like.
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(from the article `Muybridge, Eadweard`) ...could never assume such unlikely positions. To counter such criticism, Muybridge gave lectures on animal locomotion throughout the United States ... ...and an oil-lamp `magic lantern` were applied to a zoetrope-like drum, and by 1880 Muybridge was similarly projecting enlarged, illum...
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Zo`ö·prax'i·scope noun [
Zoö- + Greek ... 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 of animals, and the like.
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zoopraxiscope A series of projected images of slides placed on a large disk onto a screen. Eadweard Muybridge spent most of 1881-1882 in Paris and London exhibiting the zoopraxiscope and lecturing on animal motion. The zoopraxiscope (pronounced ZOH uh PRAKS uh skohp), invented by British photographer Eadweard Muybridge and first shown in 1879, was...
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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 opaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source was used.
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