Praxinoscope

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Praxinoscope with hot air motor. Ernst Plank. This apparatus was an improvement of the zoetrope. The slots were substituted by rectangular mirrors placed on the inside of the drum that reflected the images on the strip, giving the sensation of a slower, more paused movement that was better illuminated than the zoetrope, since it eliminated the time of the shutter effect.

Object/Work type:

praxinoscopes

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Production

Plank, Ernst (inventor)

Date: 1880 ca.

Place: Germany

Subject/theme:

cinematography, toys

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP03226