feb 24, 1879 - ZOOPRAXISCOPE
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Zoopraxiscope is invented by Eadweard Muybridge, which he is an english photographer that investigating on photographic studies of motion. He easy work in motion picture projections.
Zoopraxicope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid speed to give the impression of moving image. The stop-motion images were pinned onto the glass, as silhouettes. It uses film strip to form a motion scene, that has been lately used in cinematography. in 1878 till 1884, he finished his method of horse in motion with horses four feet lifted ff the ground, which create an illusion of the running horse. Then in 1892-1894, he uses outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically, then coloured by hand. Some of his images have featuring multiples combinetions of sequences of animal and human movement.
Lately, this device have been the inspiration for Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson's Kinetoscope
The zoopraxisope emerged out of his studies of motion as shown in sequences of still photographs. His 11-volume work, Animal Locomotion, which published in 1887 that contains over 100,000 photographs. Finally in 1893, Eadweard lectured at "Zoopraxigraphical Hall" at the world's Columbian Exposition in chicago.
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