Choreutoscope
Object description:
Beale’s Choreutoscope. It was invented by J. Bale in 1866. This was a mechanism for the animated projection of drawings with magic lantern based on the theory of persistence of vision. It included a glass plate with a drawing of a skeleton dance on a back ground mounted on a mechanism with a Maltese cross. This system made it possible to move the image forwards quickly, and was the same system that would be seen with the movement systems used for Cinematograph.
Location:
Gerona - Spain
Object measurements:
11,5 x 27 x 8,1 cm
Production
Beale, J. (inventor)
Place: France
Subject/theme:
image-projecting equipment, visual arts
Resource
Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Date Taken: 1996
Record
Rights Type: CC0
Source: Ajuntament de Girona
Identifier: MC-MP01111-1