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Social category influence travel destinations 25.24% countries 12.62% finance 6.8% automotive brands 0.97% technology brands 0.97%

Social topic influence history 17.48%, pre #1140, the first 11.65%, in the 11.65%, new york 7.77%, collection 7.77%, london 6.8%, science 4.85%, art 4.85%, university of 4.85%

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"Created during the Hundred Years War and post-Black Death it reflects both religious narratives and contemporary struggles with vivid imagery of battles between good and evil including the Four Horsemen and the New Jerusalem. Designed by Jean Bondol based partly on an illuminated manuscript it was woven by Nicholas Batailles workshop. A status symbol for Louis it also served political purposes showcasing Anjou heraldry. Donated to dAngers Cathedral in [----] it was looted and fragmented during the French Revolution but recovered and restored in the 19th century. It is held in the Chteau dAngers"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The Worlds Columbian Exposition featured several Cycloramas including the Chicago Fire Cyclorama (produced by Howard H. Gross and Isaac N. Reed) and the Kilauea Volcano Cyclorama (sponsored by Lorrin A. Thurston) but these were traditional painted Cycloramas not electric ones. Chases Electric Cyclorama likely stood out due to its use of stereopticon technology which projected images rather than relying solely on painted canvases. Brian Coe states Chase 's [----] Electric Cyclorama used eight pairs of Magic Lanterns to project a 90-metre-long circular screen with panoramic dissolving images."
X Link 2026-02-01T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Here from [----] is the Lotte Reiniger short Das Geheimnis der Marquisin or The Marquisess's Secret. At the mark she has embedded a commercial for Nivea Cream and Soap. Ingenious for [----]. I wonder what P. Beiersdorf & Co. paid her to do that (now known simply as Beiersdorf AG). This animation runs [--] minutes [--] seconds https://archive.org/embed/silent-das-geheimnis-der-marquisin https://archive.org/embed/silent-das-geheimnis-der-marquisin"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"🎦 Marorama theme music by Henri Kowalski 🎦 The Marorama building alongside the Eiffel Tower 🎦 A postcard of the Marorama 🎦 A ticket to the Marorama Right is the Marorama from the Brian Coe book The History of Movie Photography #NewJersey Westfield-- Eastview Editions UK [----] on page [--]. Left is the patent of the Marorama filed in [----] first called the #Tideorama. https://t.co/W28uRNi7un Right is the Marorama from the Brian Coe book The History of Movie Photography #NewJersey Westfield-- Eastview Editions UK [----] on page [--]. Left is the patent of the Marorama filed in [----] first called the"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Camera Lucida or the French Chambre Claire science behind its use isn't particularly complex. You observe both the light reflected off the sheet of paper and the light reflected off the Venus figurine using a half-mirror (M). The Camera Lucida is used even today by artists. You can use a Camera Lucida today even if you have a streak of purple hair. [----] THE CAMERA LUCIDA ROBERT HOOKE (1635-1703) This lecturer and later scientist gave a talk at Gresham College on felt-making and in the middle of it began describing what he would later call a Camera Lucida. The Camera Lucida was an offshoot"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1750 A MIRACULOUS WRITING MACHINE FRIEDRICH VON KNAUSS (1724-1789) Born in #Aldingen #Wrttemberg Friedrich von Knauss was a remarkable though often overlooked 18th century inventor clockmaker and mechanician at the #Habsburg court. He was active primarily in Vienna and is best known for building sophisticated automata and mechanical writing machines that blended scientific precision with theatrical flair very much part of the pre cinema lineage of animated and representational devices. Knauss Automaton photograph Technisches Museum Vienna. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020182268581453834"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"BEFORE DISNEY THERE WAS ADOLPHE SNOW WHITE (1916) Famous Players / Adolph Zukor presents Marguerite Clark and Richard Barthelmess as the Pie Man. James S. (self proclaimed) "the first motion picture director" Dawley had [---] credits as a director. This is the original tinted print. SNOW WHITE WAS AN ICELANDIC GIRL LIVING IN CANADA Disney illustrator Charles Thorson was sipping coffee at a #Winnipeg diner called the Wevel Caf one day in [----] and sketched the "fairest of them all. She was the waitress Kristin Slvadttir and became the inspiration for https://t.co/DXStL3qSqO SNOW WHITE WAS AN"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"ROCK CARVINGS MOVIES AT THE ROCK-SEE Considered to be upwards of [----] years old are the fighting cats found in the Wadi Mathendous region of the Sahara dessert near Fezzan Libya. The two cats of the Sahara moving-in-rock are clearly delineating motion"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"In Giacomo Balla's 'Dynamism of A Dog on Leash' (1912) left we see the exact motion attempted by the eight-legged boar (right) cave painting discovered at Altamira Spain. These 'motion' pictures both depict a running animal. If by memory or live as they saw it these paintings may have been painted using two small hollow bones. Paintings at Altamira may have been airbrushed. Blowing across the open hollow bone reduces air pressure forcing the ochre up the vertical hollow bone. These are https://t.co/5R9DlVIDeS If by memory or live as they saw it these paintings may have been painted using two"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"VOICE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (1929) The film was always based on the [----] novel 'The Canary Murder Case' by S.S. Van Dine. The movie was filmed entirely as a silent film in [----]. You will frequently see the film listed on modern archives and public domain sites as 'Voice from Beyond the Grave.' This isn't because the title was changed in [----] but because those titles were used for later re-releases or descriptive AKA titles due to the plot involving a phonograph record being used to provide an alibiessentially a voice speaking after a person has left the scene (or died). Halfway through"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"SANTA CLAUS (1898) George Albert Smith the great British film pioneer and his special effects. Mrs. Smith (Laura Bayley) plays maid or nanny. Dorothy Smith age [--] and Harold Smith age [--] play the kids. Santa actor was likely G.A. himself. Runs 1:16"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1853 THE MAGIC MIRROR EDWARD HENRY CORBOULD (815-1905) Painted by Corbould from Sir Walter Scotts poem 'The Lay of The Last Minstrel' in [----]. The Earl of Surrey envisions an apparition of the fair maiden Geraldine in a magic mirror. This painting has strong thematic and conceptual ties to pre cinema even if its not directly a pre cinematic device. In The Lay of the Last Minstrel the magic mirror is used by a wizard Michael Scott (standing in the shadow) to conjure visions from some realm a spectral illusion that the viewer passively observes. This clearly prefigures the function of the magic"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"CELLULOID COMES OF AGE IN [----] JOHN CARBUTT (18321905) Carbutt was a British-American photographer inventor and photographic pioneer born in Sheffield England. He emigrated to #Canada between [----] and1859 photographing the #GrandTrunkRailway later settling in Chicago and later moved to Philadelphia where he spent much of his career. Carbutt made significant contributions to photography and early motion picture technology notably as the first to use celluloid for photographic film and to market dry-plate glass negatives. Carbutt manufactures the first successful sheet-film at Hyatts Celluloid"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"FIRST STUNT WOMAN HELEN GIBSON (1892-1977) Born #RoseAugustWenger as cinema was emerging #HelenGibson is recognized as the earliest professional American stunt woman to work in moving pictures when she saw her first #WildWest show and was immediately smitten"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Gibson had four sisters and her father wanting a son encouraged her to be a tomboy. She partook in rodeos from an early age and loved it then changed her name after meeting master horseman Edmund Richard Hoot Gibson who would soon enter movies himself. They would eventually marry. FIRST STUNT WOMAN HELEN GIBSON (1892-1977) Born #RoseAugustWenger as cinema was emerging #HelenGibson is recognized as the earliest professional American stunt woman to work in moving pictures when she saw her first #WildWest show and was immediately smitten. https://t.co/czQhSVODTe FIRST STUNT WOMAN HELEN GIBSON"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1890 STEREOSCOPY FROM THE RIGHT LENS ONLY WILLIAM FRIESE-GREENE (1855-1921) FREDERICK HENRY VARLEY (18421916) In [----] Friese-Greene teamed up with engineer Frederick Henry Varley to build a stereoscopic 3D motion picture camera one of the earliest attempts to capture moving images with two lenses to produce a 3D effect. The Varley camera photographed two parallel image tracks running side-by-side onto the same strip of 155mm wide film. The original film is almost entirely lost. What survives are only a handful of frames commonly referred to in texts as four or six frames because the rest"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Frederick Marshall Lee and Edward Raymond Turner formed a partnership in [----] for patent BP6202 titled "Means for Taking and Exhibition Cinematographic Pictures" the first British colour moving picture patent. [----] EDWARD RAYMOND TURNER (1873-1903) Turner produces a prototype motion picture tri-colour system capable of producing blue red and green colour photographs in turn creating colour cinematography. The system required [--] fps and resulted in being the earliest system to https://t.co/fXLFp9Tljm [----] EDWARD RAYMOND TURNER (1873-1903) Turner produces a prototype motion picture tri-colour"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Frith Cosmoscope (l) is reminiscent of the Carlo Ponti Megalethoscope (r) a much larger and similar viewer which won a medal at the International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in [----]. It was built on a very impressive scale as its name indicates. Frith's work was sold as individual prints albums and stereoscopic cards making exotic locales accessible to a wide audience. In [----] he founded Francis Frith and Company a photography business that became one of the largest publishers of photographs in Britain. The company focused on documenting British towns villages and landscapes creating"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"From The History of Movie Photography by Brian Coe New York Zoetrope Inc. Westfield NJ [----] on p27 we can read more about the Frith Cosmoscope. In [----] Frith made an extended trip to #Egypt travelling up the #Nile from #Cairo where he took pioneering photographs for his Cosmoscope. He used [--] different cameras: πŸ“· a Stereoscopic one πŸ“· and [--] large-format cameras using negatives of [--] by [--] and [--] by [--] inches The Frith Cosmoscope (l) is reminiscent of the Carlo Ponti Megalethoscope (r) a much larger and similar viewer which won a medal at the International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"On his return he opened the Frith and Company studio in Liverpool and published his photographs between [----] and [----]. Pictured is a Francis Frith self-portrait in a traditional Turkish Summer costume. An Albumen silver print from a glass negative. David Hunter McAlpin Collection. Frith's Cosmoscope c. [----] domed burr walnut veneered case hinged lid with viewing lens together with [--] photographs from the lands of the Bible height [---] inches length [--] inches. From The History of Movie Photography by Brian Coe New York Zoetrope Inc. Westfield NJ [----] on p27 we can read more about the Frith"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Goerz/Anschutz Focal Plane Tropical model was produced for difficult climes. Russian leather was used and for the bellows brass and nickel in preference to steel where possible. The shutter springs were nickel-plated. The Goerz/Anschutz Focal Plane Tropical model lens was f [---] a [---] mm Doppel Anastigmat Dagor. Iris diaphragm to f [--]. Serial N [------]. This is the first Focal Plane shutter camera by C. P. Goerz and Ottomar Anschutz. Spring powered speeds from [--] seconds - 1/1200. Speeds down to 1/10 are regulated by varying the slit width and tension. The Lens is f [---] a [---] mm Doppel"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1848 EDWARD MARMADUKE CLARKE (1806-1859) Clarke was an Irish scientific instrument maker optician and a key figure in the development of electromagnetic technology during the 19th century. Little is known about his early life but by [----] he was involved in establishing the #Dublin Mechanics' Institution indicating an early interest in a scientific and technical direction. Clarke published a book in London on the use of the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe which was invented by Robert Hare in [----]. He wrote about its use in educational presentations using a Magic Lantern."
X Link 2026-02-10T19:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"THEORY MEETS REALITY The three brothers were born in Wittenberg Saxony to Michael Weber a theology professor and grew up in an academic environment influenced by figures like physicist Ernst Chladni. Their interdisciplinary collaboration combined physics anatomy and physiology to advance scientific understanding of human movement. Never having actually used a Phenakistiscope or Zoetrope that we know they went as far as suggesting their theoretical drawings be used in a Stroboscopic device. The record isnt clear if they ever followed through experimentally. Enter Marey and Muybridge: Theory"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1894 THE ELECTRORAMA THOMAS W. BARBER The Barber Electrorama was #patented in [----] and first publicised in London in [----] by C. W. Locke at St. James's venue called #Niagara. The #Electrorama is a clear precursor to immersive #Panoramic projection systems and fits snugly into the proto cinematic theme. The use of multiple projected images around a cylindrical screen anticipates later multi-projector Panoramas and eventually circular and dome-based cinematic experiences. I have not been able to find any images of the #BarberElectrorama except a printed diagram seen coming up."
X Link 2026-02-11T13:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"In [----] publisher Robert Walton produced four separate vignettes of historical incidents which all had religious motive as the basis for the cards. These events were then put into sequential order telling the events from beginning to end just like a movie. Walton advertised them for the first time in the Domestic Intelligence on [--] December [----]. [----] THE CINEMA IN PRINTED PLAYING CARDS Watch an historical bio-pic while as you play cards. British subjects were able to in [----]. Seventy-four years after the Gunpowder Plot was uncovered the events were put into cinematic form in printed playing"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The description for each card is written at the bottom and in the English of the times. Inter titles if you will. Close up below of cards [--] and [--]. Visit the pre cinema events that happened between [----] and [----] here πŸ‘‰ https://precinemahistory.com/chapter-five/#gunpowderplot1679 Each complete pack depicted four separate plots of [--] cards each: 🎞the 1st Spanish Armada (1588) 🎞William Parry's Plot (1582-1585) 🎞the Gunpowder Plot (1605) Card [--] below 🎞the Popish Plot (1678) The backs of the cards were plain and the front images were etchings. The https://t.co/fmBxsyAMXl"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"6/6 The material for the cards was called #pasteboard. The images were etchings and the dimension of each card was [---] inches tall by [----] inches wide. These #precinema playing cards are housed at the British Museum and were bequeathed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber in [----]. -30- The description for each card is written at the bottom and in the English of the times. Inter titles if you will. Close up below of cards [--] and [--]. Visit the pre cinema events that happened between [----] and [----] here πŸ‘‰ https://t.co/16zBDb3UBW https://t.co/2683Exf1Sm The description for each card is written at the"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"An illustration of aLaterna Magicain operation by a gentleman 1786-1788. Found in the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen. Artist Abildgaard Nicolai Abraham (1743-1809). Photo by Fine Art ImagesHeritage Images via Getty Images"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Molteni Lanterns below were painted sheet metal lanterns on four varnished copper legs with a varnished wood base. They had a porthole door on each side a brass fireplace long-dimension #opticaltube with two-wheel and rack-and-pinion lens and a spring-loaded sight glass. [----] FRANOIS MARIE ALFRED MOLTENI (1837-1907) Molteni was a Parisian maker of projection lanterns including those used in Phantasmagoria. Under contract to the #Lumire factory he manufactured lamphouses used in their Cinematographique. https://t.co/nHjnOcpGxy [----] FRANOIS MARIE ALFRED MOLTENI (1837-1907) Molteni was a"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Along with French engineer Jules Ernest Othon Kumberg who lived in London Rigg was also the manufacturer and co-patentee of thewait-for-the-name. Kinematograph the projector. Kumberg and Rigg co-patented the Kinematograph projector. It is documented as the third English film projector to be publicly exhibited in Britain. Their machine made its debut at the Royal Aquarium in Westminster London on [--] of April [----]. Kumberg was associated with the Anglo-Continental Phonograph Company which helped market and exploit the machine. While Rigg handled much of the manufacturing in Leeds Kumbergs"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"By [----] the pioneer era was ending. Larger companies with better distribution networks and more reliable technology began to dominate the market. Rigg's Kinematograph Syndicate eventually went into liquidation around the turn of the century and Rigg returned to his roots in general electrical engineering. View the June [----] issue of the 'Optical Magic Lantern Journal' page xii (between pages [---] and 105) here πŸ‘‰ https://ia802303.us.archive.org/2/items/opticalmagiclanternjournal-1897-06/opticalmagiclanternjournal-1897-06.pdf Rigg wasn't just an inventor; he was an entrepreneur. He founded the"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"c. [------] BC GREEK VASES - MOTION IN ART Combined motion and story-telling has been portrayed in almost every kind of art. One perfect example is this ancient #Greekvase on the left by the #BerlinPainter who lived in #Athens in the early fifth century BC. The Greeks combined motion with their art by placing athletes (mostly #Olympic) on vases. Below right is a sprinter on an #amphora made in #ancientGreece dated sometime between [---] and [---] BC. The sprinter here is not identified. You are intended to see him running. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021964727899808067"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The #Panoply Vase Animation Project by Steve Simons and Dr. Sonya Nevin has brought this fragment of an Attic black figure cup to life. The way it was meant to be seen. #HighArchaic c. 550BC from the #Ure Museum University of #Reading UK. [---] BC Here the long-distance runner and hero known as #Pheidippides is immortalized on an amphora dated to [---] BC (with [--] other runners). Left is the adaptation made from the #Panathenaic amphora and right the amphora itself. https://t.co/IvRxyb6Erd [---] BC Here the long-distance runner and hero known as #Pheidippides is immortalized on an amphora dated to"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Turning to Greek plates and the simplicity they saw of the ability to infer movement we see this Siren Boeotian black-figure dish c. [------] BC unearthed in the city of Tanagra. Its supposed motion is I think smoother than the vase. Department of Greek Campana Gallery the Louvre. The #Panoply Vase Animation Project by Steve Simons and Dr. Sonya Nevin has brought this fragment of an Attic black figure cup to life. The way it was meant to be seen. #HighArchaic c. 550BC from the #Ure Museum University of #Reading UK. https://t.co/0oqUa06mZh The #Panoply Vase Animation Project by Steve Simons and"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1882 BELLOWS GUN CAMERA BENJAMIN WEST KILBURN (1827-1909) Camera design has changed significantly even before photography and cinematic history arrived. Some changes came through experimentation. Some through necessity. Kilburn was an American photographer and stereoscopic view publisher renowned for his landscape photography and documentation of significant historical events in the late 19th century. Born in Littleton New Hampshire he was a seventh-generation New Englander with a passion for the outdoors including hunting and mountain climbing which influenced his career in capturing New"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Benjamin focused on taking photographs while Edward handled development. Their company specialized in stereoscopic viewspaired images that created a 3D effect when viewed through a stereoscope featuring landscapes of #American and #Canadian national parks as well as international scenes. By [----] they expanded to a larger studio on Main Streets Chutter Block and after the Boston Fire of [----] they built a new factory on Cottage Street. Their business became one of the worlds leading producers of stereoscopic views averaging [----] stereographs daily sold for $2.00 to $2.50 per dozen. The Camera"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"With the preface in this publication dated December [----] the camera was most likely being manufactured in [----] prior to the filing and issuance of the #patent. From the New York Tribune we read; Surviving examples of the Kilburn Gun Camera have been found stamped American Optical Company or #ScovillManufacturing Company. Ads for the camera have been found as early as [----] in Scovills The Photographic Amateur. This innovative camera shaped like a firearm allowed https://t.co/JKj0aOjuVB Surviving examples of the Kilburn Gun Camera have been found stamped American Optical Company or"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"6/6 Kilburn's #GunCamera was designed for the outdoor photographer who had to deal with heavy equipment and difficult terrain. By combining a lightweight 4x5 camera with a specially fitted gunstock and trigger-release linkage #Kilburn was able to do away with the tripod. The camera was constructed of #mahogany or cherry a black fabric bellows and brass hardware. Available in [--] x [--] size only. Shutter speed was 1/ 700th a second. Priced in [----] at $27 for the outfit and $5 for the gun-stock. Photos National Museum of American History -30- With the preface in this publication dated December 1882"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1894 ITS RAINING ONLY CATS TIENNE-JULES MAREY (1830-1904) An article in the [--] December [----] Scientific American Supplement poses the question Why a cat in falling lands on its feet. sic Enter Monsieur Marey who provided two block illustrations made from #Chronophotographs he had taken. Here is the #catfalling and correcting itself in a separate series of #photographs animated. Marey through his Chronophotography has proven that there is at least one Motion Picture character that does not land with a three-point stance. Someone should inform #MarvelStudios."
X Link 2026-02-12T18:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1853 THE QUINETOSCOPE ACHILLE LON QUINET (18311900) Quinet was a French photographer and inventor born in Paris known for his contributions to early photography. He was the son of Alexandre Marie Quinet a printer-lithographer and photographer and the older brother of Louis Emmanuel Alexandre Quinet also a photographer. Achille continued his fathers work focusing on innovative photographic techniques and subject matter. At age [--] Quinet presents the first binocular-style stereo camera and calls it a Quinetoscope. Quinet is best remembered for his compositions of livestock and landscapes using"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Achille Quinet was a successful photographer in Paris from [----] to [----]. Although he made photographs of the #architecture of Paris as well as a series of views of Italy he is also known for his landscape animals and figure studies. The #Quinetoscope used two lenses to capture stereograms enabling three-dimensional images even of moving subjects. Quinet also worked on lenses with variable shutter speeds improving control over focus and depth of field. [----] THE QUINETOSCOPE ACHILLE LON QUINET (18311900) Quinet was a French photographer and inventor born in Paris known for his contributions to"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"5/5 Most of Quinets work is housed at the Bibliothque Nationale Paris where he deposited his Etudes at the Dept Lgal in [----] [----] [----]. Below N [--] in his series Etude d'Aprs Nature. This photograph was a sensation when made public for the glassy-looking water alone. Quinet was a member of the Socite Franaise de Photographie from [----] to [----]. His work was displayed in the #1878UniversalExhibition. There is some confusion in my sources about his death date with most citing [----] though the Bibliothque Nationale records it as [--] April [----] in Cly-en-Bire. His work is also occasionally mistaken"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1889 MAGIC LANTERN VENDING MACHINE In January [----] Victor Bonnet Hippolyte Lissagaray Armand Richard and Alfred Richard filed a co-patent for an Automatic mechanism for staging stereoscopes dioramas and magic lanterns. Image Patrice Guerin. Devices like this were exciting to public social life and central to pre cinema visual culture creating immersive or animated experiences for audiences all for a nickel. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022299197232353381 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022299197232353381"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Victor Bonnet Hippolyte Lissagaray Armand Richard and Alfred Richard patent went on; A Public Viewer or Electric Magic Lantern it was. The patent read that "the box or the envelope of the apparatus of wood or any other material may assume the most varied forms and dimensions and be decorated or ornamented in any suitable way. Image Patrice Guerin. https://t.co/cjnTYThBYR A Public Viewer or Electric Magic Lantern it was. The patent read that "the box or the envelope of the apparatus of wood or any other material may assume the most varied forms and dimensions and be decorated or ornamented"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The mechanisms required for the device's functionality were all internal. The schematic below from the patent establishes how pictures images telegrams or photographs can be placed on frames that revolve independently of strings or strips. Image Patrice Guerin. Their combined logic expressed a void to be filled that would satisfy the growing use and obvious desire for attendant-less machines that offered some of lifes pleasures--the emergence of the #vendingmachine. The patent read in part; https://t.co/2XN05Q6tNI Their combined logic expressed a void to be filled that would satisfy the"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Duhousset placed the photographs into a Zoetrope and comments in The Gaits Exterior and Proportions of the Horse in [----] that; I suitably spaced these photographs and submitted them to the test of the zootrope: the experiment was conclusive . . . . Photographs having been obtained by Duhousset of Muybridges initial series in [----] (19 June) may have been of Sallie Gardner as the images are quite similarSilhouetted (like the Muybridge contact sheet right) with high contrast resulting from bright sunlight and the pure https://t.co/M0rKcMOajE Photographs having been obtained by Duhousset of"
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"LOOK WHAT PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMATOGRAPHY TAUGHT US On [--] January [----] the Parisian L'Illustration published an article by Duhousset outlining the gaits of a horse that covered two full pages and included eleven images of the horse in motion. On the right and for comparison illustrations from his book (pp18 and 19). Duhousset placed the photographs into a Zoetrope and comments in The Gaits Exterior and Proportions of the Horse in [----] that; I suitably spaced these photographs and submitted them to the test of the zootrope: the experiment was conclusive . . . . https://t.co/eqoGy5jooO Duhousset"
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"1896 THE MOTOGRAPH MOVING PICTURE BOOK WALTER SYMONS (1855-1905) Symons received British Patent [----] on [--] March [----] for a publishing technique that caused pages in a book to appear to move. This process was used two years later making this book the oldest known publication that used two known everyday resources to create the illusion of motion in a static picture. The secret and combined materials that caused this apparition were talc and a ribbed page transparency. It helped too that Symons was a publisher. Notice who the illustrator is. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022363804043252017"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Four of the pages in Walter Symons Motograph Moving Picture Book published in [----] by Bliss Sands and Company London. Notice the cover design was completed by the famed Parisian painter Toulouse Lautrec. CUT AND PASTE IN [----] Berthier would be unknown of today if not for his notion of Stereoscopic line-screen photography in the same year as Symons patent for his Motograph Moving Picture Book. READ more about Paul Berthier and this topic in 3D and Animated Lenticular https://t.co/2RbhoxT2rA CUT AND PASTE IN [----] Berthier would be unknown of today if not for his notion of Stereoscopic"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1764 THE CAMERA WITHIN ART CHARLES AMDE PHILIPPE VAN LOO (1719-1795) Philippe van Loo was a French painter known for his allegorical scenes and portraits born in Rivoli near Turin Italy. He came from a prominent family of artists being the son of painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo and nephew of Charles-Andr (Carle) van Loo. His brothers Franois and Louis-Michel van Loo were also painters. Van Loos' originally-named 'The Magic Lantern' painting shows a boy looking into the lens of a Camera Obscura while embracing it with his little sister sitting on their moms lap. Did Van Loo not know the"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"There is some honour given by the artist in his painting by blending the two discoveries of the lantern and camera into the same picture. The innocent and nave little girl the inquisitive boy wondering whats inside the box and the mother with that look on her face. My continued interest in this painting over [--] years has revealed that international and reputable fine art galleries around the world are now calling this painting the appropriate name The Camera Obscura and not The Magic Lantern. The National Gallery of Art Washington D. C. as one example. When I first learned of this painting I"
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"5/5 [----] THE CAMERA WITHIN ART CHARLES AMDE PHILIPPE VAN LOO (1705-1795) Can be found here ➑ -30- https://precinemahistory.com/chapter-seven/#vanloo1764 There is some honour given by the artist in his painting by blending the two discoveries of the lantern and camera into the same picture. The innocent and nave little girl the inquisitive boy wondering whats inside the box and the mother with that look on her face. My https://t.co/Ovjht2Sivq https://precinemahistory.com/chapter-seven/#vanloo1764 There is some honour given by the artist in his painting by blending the two discoveries of the"
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"As 35mm film became the conventional format for cinema #Gaumont immediately discontinued production of its #60mm Chronophotographe and introduced its first 35mm camera in November [----] the #NewChronophotographe. Images Antiq Photo. [----] NEW CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHE DEMEN / GAUMONT Georges Demens New Chronophotographe is the first small model 35mm cinematographic apparatus made by Gaumont. It could be used for filming printing and projecting. Image Antiq-Photo. https://t.co/aNxPKgDFfn [----] NEW CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHE DEMEN / GAUMONT Georges Demens New Chronophotographe is the first small model 35mm"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1885 FAST PHOTOS ERNST MACH (1838-1916) Mach was a professor in Prague. He photographed the passage of fast moving objects clearly showing the sound waves breaking the air in excess of [---] miles per hour. The cone created by the shock wave. Photo below taken by Ernst Mach in [----] in Prague using Schlieren photography on a 5mm diametre negative. This photo shows both strong and weak sound waves surrounding the supersonic brass bullet. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022385926702256623 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022385926702256623"
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"Referring to Ernst Machs photographing the passage of fast-moving objects is this entry taken from The History of Photography - From the Camera Obscura to The Beginning of The Modern Era (Helmut and Alison Gernsheim Thames and Hudson London 1969) on p445. [----] FAST PHOTOS ERNST MACH (1838-1916) Mach was a professor in Prague. He photographed the passage of fast moving objects clearly showing the sound waves breaking the air in excess of [---] miles per hour. The cone created by the shock wave. Photo below taken by Ernst Mach in https://t.co/YeDYJXlMgK [----] FAST PHOTOS ERNST MACH (1838-1916)"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Left The Thomas Ross Mechanical Magic Lantern Wheel of Life was a projection version of the Phenakistoscope by Joseph Plateau and was patented by Ross twice in [----] and [----]. Image from the Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum Bradford UK. Right A Thomas Ross Wheel of Life from [----]. Painted brass mechanism wood frame. Made from mica which like glass could withstand the heat of a Magic Lantern. Two painted Thomas Ross Wheel of Life lantern slide disks also showing two versions- multiple or single slot shutter. Glass mica and celluloid discs. Patented in [----] image from Stephen"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Thomas Ross Flying Geese Wheel of Life made of Mica [----]. Image and animation Tangible Media Collection. Left The Thomas Ross Mechanical Magic Lantern Wheel of Life was a projection version of the Phenakistoscope by Joseph Plateau and was patented by Ross twice in [----] and [----]. Image from the Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum Bradford UK. Right A Thomas Ross Wheel https://t.co/TkfVaBJZpx Left The Thomas Ross Mechanical Magic Lantern Wheel of Life was a projection version of the Phenakistoscope by Joseph Plateau and was patented by Ross twice in [----] and [----]. Image from the Kodak"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"7/7 SEE a Thomas Ross Wheel of Life Magic Lantern Slide from [----] come to life thanks to Museu del Cinema @museucinema Runs 1:43 Thomas Ross Flying Geese Wheel of Life made of Mica [----]. Image and animation Tangible Media Collection. https://t.co/MfOIbusaHi Thomas Ross Flying Geese Wheel of Life made of Mica [----]. Image and animation Tangible Media Collection. https://t.co/MfOIbusaHi"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Brewster gave the world the Kaleidoscope in [----] a toy that would bring millions around the world a visually pleasing spectacle of twisting and turning colours and shapes. The Kaleidoscope can be found even today by downloading on to your smartphone. The Kaleidoscope Lucid Simulation App from Zeus Software offers near-authentic Kaleidoscope images on your computer screen for a relaxing and peaceful state. From [----] to todays technology. If Sir David could see this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/detailsid=com.zeus_dev_software_tools.kaleidoskop_2"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The name #Zoetrope is composed of the Greek root words zoion an animal (zoe) or life and (tropos) meaning turning. Walt #Disney was a great fan and a custodian of pre cinema. Here hes holding a Zoetrope strip from one of his #TV episodes in the 1950s. Julius Pfragner in his The Eye of History (Index section) on p223 incorrectly calls this Horner's device. Horner did at first call his Daedaleum a magic drum yes. But this image is in fact a William Lincoln Zoetrope. Correct information wrong image. https://t.co/BDB1TlKutw Julius Pfragner in his The Eye of History (Index section) on p223"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Each of these Panoramas is rolled up on what D'Alsi called a "debtor" cylinder and a "receiver" cylinder (giant vertical supply and take-up reel spools). One is placed to the left of the ship's #gangway setting where the spectators are located and the other to the right. When the journey begins the giant cylinders slowly turn and unroll the two Panoramas on either side of the boat. The junction of the two debtor and receiver cylinders is cleverly masked by tension-sails at the front and at the rear. The gangway moved using hydraulic jacks. Fans simulated sea breeze while uniformed crews set"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"In my top three screen actors of all time. Peter OToole delivered a remarkable performance as Thomas Becket in "Becket" (1964) capturing the conflict conviction and inner turmoil of the legendary Archbishop. His portrayal brought depth and intensity to the historical drama. #PeterOToole #Becket #ClassicFilm https://t.co/i2GC79rwGL Peter OToole delivered a remarkable performance as Thomas Becket in "Becket" (1964) capturing the conflict conviction and inner turmoil of the legendary Archbishop. His portrayal brought depth and intensity to the historical drama. #PeterOToole #Becket #ClassicFilm"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Theres no record they ever successfully projected it publicly even though Friese-Greene and Varley showed their camera and strips of film at meetings. Varleys involvement is not anecdotal: he is named in patents and contemporary technical discussions and his role was mechanical / electrical rather than promotional. Pictured are the WFG / Varley stereo camera on the right with Friese Greene behind it and on left the late historian Stephen Herbert (part of the Race to Cinema project team) with his reconstruction of the William Friese Greene - Frederick Varley stereoscopic camera. As British"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"4/4 Friese-Greene presented the Varley #stereoscopiccamera at some meetings in [----] and one strip of film shot may have been the man walking with his back to the camera. Even though the stereo camera was considered as a projector according to Domankiewicz both men seemed unclear as to exactly how the stereoscopic effect would be seen. SEE Race to Cinema's 3D stereo video here πŸ‘‰ where someone animated these three pairs and lined them up for blue-red anaglyph viewing which works well as Domankiewicz told me recently. The someone were David Burder and Ina Bickerstaff at the Race to Cinema"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1869 WHEEL OF LIFE MAGIC LANTERN SLIDE THOMAS ROSS The Ross Wheel of Life was a Mechanical Magic Lantern slide for animation and projection. Made of Brass copper glass zinc alloy wood. The glass disk was [---] inches in diametre and it had a single slot shutter"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Two painted Thomas Ross Wheel of Life lantern slide disks also showing two versions- multiple or single slot shutter. Glass mica and celluloid discs. Patented in [----] image from Stephen Herbert. This beautifully preserved Ross Wheel of Life glass disk that I just showed and pictured here was manufactured around [----] with images likely applied by the Langenheim Hyalotype process. Image Henc R. A. de Roo Huizen the Netherlands from his de Luikerwaal Collection. https://t.co/nDOqs4siM6 This beautifully preserved Ross Wheel of Life glass disk that I just showed and pictured here was manufactured"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"There are [---] characters; painters children maids eunuchs and court ladies in a scenario like a film. Spring Dawn in the Han Palace is an ink and colour on silk handscroll measuring [--] foot high by [--] feet long and is housed at the National Palace Museum Taipei https://www.npm.gov.tw/l=2 This work has an intricate composition as it pans. The artwork uses a perspective that is higher (camera angle) than the buildings allowing the viewer to see higher up over the parapets. As well the garden scenes offer #Panoramic wide screen views. https://t.co/uM9am8uzwb https://www.npm.gov.tw/l=2 This work"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1850 This is a very rare French silver thimble with a scene from the fable of Florian "Le singe qui montre la lanterne magique" (The monkey displaying the Magic Lantern). https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022705819934966003 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022705819934966003"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1826 CARPENTER AND WESTLEY Philip Carpenter and Bill Westley manufactured top quality Magic Lanterns and slides. They designed a mass-production and high-quality process creating copper-plated lantern slides. They also made barometres microscopes Kaleidoscopes thermometres spectacles and Claude Glasses in addition to lantern slides. After Philip Carpenters death in [----] his sister Mary continued the business keeping the name Carpenter and Westley. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023123218341793916 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023123218341793916"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Here are two Copper-Plate Sliders by Carpenter and Westley in production between [----] & [----]. Elements of Zoology; #Brazilian porcupine variegated and spotted cavies beaver #Newfoundland dog wolf striped hyena and Fennec fox. From the Phillip Roberts Collection. Carpenter and Westleys expertise was recognised when they were asked to create achromatic lenses for Peter Dollond and John Benjamin Dancer. In [----] Sir David Brewster invented the Kaleidoscope and chose them as his manufacturer. [----] CARPENTER AND WESTLEY Philip Carpenter and Bill Westley manufactured top quality Magic Lanterns and"
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"1884 PAPER FILM GEORGE EASTMAN (1854-1932) Eastman begins manufacture of rolled paper film in late [----] in Rochester New York the permanent home of the future Eastman Kodak Company. He applies for a patent on a film-stripping process which requires a tougher outer coating to be peeled off before use. Less than five years later his celluloid film would depart this same factory (August 1889). https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019055127038931351 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019055127038931351"
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"This was a major step in photographic history. The film was designed for use in Eastmans early Kodak camera prototypes and it predated the launch of the first Kodak camera (which used the film) in [----]. Pictured are sheets [--] and [--] of the Walker / Edison patent [------] for photographic roll-holder films issued [--] May [----]. [----] PAPER FILM GEORGE EASTMAN (1854-1932) Eastman begins manufacture of rolled paper film in late [----] in Rochester New York the permanent home of the future Eastman Kodak Company. He applies for a patent on a film-stripping process which requires a tougher outer coating to"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1894 THE SNEEZE WENT VIRAL WILLIAM KENNEDY LAURIE DICKSON (1860-1935) Dickson uses the Kinetograph to photograph #FredOtt one of Edison's lab workers standing in front of the camera sneezing. This was not so much an experimental film as it was a publicity stunt for a New York magazine. Its a classic bit of cinema history. That five-second clip can be considered the first #viral video in historythough it predates the internet by about a century. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019079309609025783 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019079309609025783"
X Link 2026-02-04T16:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1844 THE PENCIL OF NATURE WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877) The first commercially published illustrated book. The Calotype / Talbotype photographic process published by Longman Brown Green and Longmans in six fascicles London [----]. READ it https://archive.org/embed/thepencilofnatur33447gut https://archive.org/embed/thepencilofnatur33447gut"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1893 CARL STRMER (1874-1957) At age [--] this Norwegian soon-to-be famous physicist buys a Gray and Stirn concealed Vest Camera and takes up candid street photography. He secretly photographed street life in #Oslo #Norway from [----] to 1897"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Strmer had a successful career as a mathematician and physicist teaching for [--] years at the University of Oslo. A crater on the dark side of the moon is named after him. Carl Strmer merged photography with his day job. He was the first to advance precise photographic procedures to compute heights and morphologies of varied auroral forms (study of Aurora Borealis) over the course of four solar cycles. In his biography for the Fellows of the Royal Society he confessed that his interest in photography was stimulated by a veiled affection. https://t.co/3PAVxhA9V3 In his biography for the Fellows"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"6/6 Twenty years before other scientists discovered cosmic ray access to the upper atmosphere his theoretical studies explained itwith the help of photography. Some images via Collectiblend. -30- Strmer had a successful career as a mathematician and physicist teaching for [--] years at the University of Oslo. A crater on the dark side of the moon is named after him. Carl Strmer merged photography with his day job. He was the first to advance precise photographic https://t.co/8ewLEy81xr Strmer had a successful career as a mathematician and physicist teaching for [--] years at the University of"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The first Caesar Milan Camberley Kate and her stray dogs in [----]. https://t.co/GGdnCBFO8z Camberley Kate and her stray dogs in [----]. https://t.co/GGdnCBFO8z"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"No one loathed Menjou unless you're referring to his first name being Adolphe. Menjou was great. I always enjoyed him. Love him or loath him; you cant argue that he had a fantastic screen presence @SlapstickFest and @pandaemoniumnow looks at the screen presence of Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963) over the course of today. More info: https://t.co/it3v2bVi0A https://t.co/XdAZ7qoJ47 Love him or loath him; you cant argue that he had a fantastic screen presence @SlapstickFest and @pandaemoniumnow looks at the screen presence of Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963) over the course of today. More info:"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Johann Samuel Halle stands as a crucial but under-recognized bridge between #Enlightenment science demonstrations and the illusionistic theatre that is all part of pre cinema. His mechanical phantoms were carefully engineered automata-Dioramas and enhanced with lantern projection and mirror optics. They were designed for noble or educated audiences and rooted in rationality but deliberately theatrical and later misinterpreted as magical or superstitious. Halle may be one of the earliest documented creators of what we now think of as immersive multimedia storytelling using technology not just"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"COURTLY SPECTACLE TABLEAU This image shows a framed stage-like tableau complete with figures and mechanical elements. A framed miniature stage set before a court audiencea mechanized Diorama portraying a mythological or Biblical scene. In the foreground are figures arranged on a shallow stage likely static wooden or card-cutouts. In the foreground are figures arranged on a shallow stage likely static wooden or card-cutouts. Picture each element in the frame moving as it would in its own way and time. The middle portion contained rotating discs behind the cutouts suggesting moving clouds. In"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1896 THE PHYSIOGRAPHE EDMUND AND LEON BLOCH Edmund and Leon Bloch were brothers who formed a camera manufacturing firm in Paris around [----] specializing in disguised or #detectivecameras. Leon Bloch designed the cameras while Edmund handled manufacturing. Their company advertised as "Leon Bloch inventor - manufacturer" was located at [--] Avenue de la Rpublique Paris. They produced innovative #spycameras. Bloch patents the Physiographe a stereo camera made in the shape of small #binoculars. The chamber on the right side of the camera could hold up to [--] plates sized [---] x [---] inches. Produced in"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Boys work may have looked something like this pellet going through a drop of soapy water by Lucien Bull called Rupture dune bulle de savon par un projectile [----]. This reference to Boys work photographing bullets in motion is taken from The History of Photography - From the Camera Obscura to The Beginning of The Modern Era Helmut and Alison Gernsheim Thames and Hudson London [----] p445. https://t.co/TsJU5ck5VX This reference to Boys work photographing bullets in motion is taken from The History of Photography - From the Camera Obscura to The Beginning of The Modern Era Helmut and Alison"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"CHARLOTTE REINIGER (1899-1981) Although born as my study of pre cinema winds down Reiniger must be mentioned for her contribution in writing producing and directing her highly entertaining and magical animated films. Lottes breakthrough was the development of animated films using a stop-frame technique that provided the illusion of animation by displaying the standard [--] fps. Her animation techniques included recording puppets operated by a hidden hand inspired by the Shadow Play. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019475513987793370 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019475513987793370"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Asian Puppet Theatre and Chinese Shadow Theatre were certainly her sources of inspiration for The Adventures of Prince Achmed in [----]. Below watch this amazing film reconstructed in [----] from a tinted nitrate copy obtained by the BFI. Runs 106:08 https://archive.org/embed/the.-adventures.-of.-prince.-achmed.-1926.720p.-blu-ray.x-264-public-hd https://archive.org/embed/the.-adventures.-of.-prince.-achmed.-1926.720p.-blu-ray.x-264-public-hd CHARLOTTE REINIGER (1899-1981) Although born as my study of pre cinema winds down Reiniger must be mentioned for her contribution in writing producing and"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"German animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger devised a multi-plane camera for one of the earliest animated features 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed' (1926) as did Disney not long after. These two images in private collection shown with permission thank you. Asian Puppet Theatre and Chinese Shadow Theatre were certainly her sources of inspiration for The Adventures of Prince Achmed in [----]. https://t.co/CXPWJfg5Cc Below watch this amazing film reconstructed in [----] from a tinted nitrate copy obtained by the BFI. Runs 106:08 Asian Puppet Theatre and Chinese Shadow Theatre were certainly her sources"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"10/10 Lotte Reiniger was also an author. READ her Shadow Puppets Shadow Theatres And Shadow Films published in [----] and also part of my bibliography here at -30- https://archive.org/embed/shadowpuppetssha0000rein https://archive.org/embed/shadowpuppetssha0000rein Look closely at Reinigers work and we see how her animation influenced other animators including Disneys concept artist #MaryBlair (19111978) who came up with ideas for Disney classics Alice in Wonderland #SleepingBeauty and #PeterPan. Here are four of Blairs concept cels https://t.co/FSAMsIS8yR"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"SEVILLE PANORAMA LA TOUR DE L'OR (1906) Leon Gaumont Alice Guy and Anatole Thiberville. Production Company was Socit des Etablissements L. Gaumont. Alice Guy travelled around Spain for six weeks from October to the end of November of [----] filming in Barcelona Madrid Granada Crdoba and Seville. -aliceguyblache.com Runs 1:06 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019496470177550772 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019496470177550772"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1711 WILLEM JAKOB VAN GRAVESANDE (1688-1742) Gravesande was a Dutch mathematician physicist and philosopher who played a key role in spreading Isaac Newtons ideas across Continental Europe. Born in 's-Hertogenbosch sic (Den Bosch) Netherlands he studied law at Leiden University earning a doctorate in [----] with a thesis on suicide. Gravesande illustrated a Camera Obscura in the form of a sedan chair or "machine" as Gravesande himself called it in his 'Usage de la chambre obscure pour le dessein' (An Essay on Perspective The Hague 1711). This hybrid device combined transportation with"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Apparently there was some sort of foot peddle which allowed fresh air to be pumped into the compartment using a periscope-shaped tube. This illustration does not show this. Jacob van der Aas 'Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands' ( 18521878) mentions his optical experiments including adaptations of the Camera Obscura but doesn't dwell on this chair. The Teylers Museum and Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in the Netherlands (which hold early Dutch scientific instruments and works of Van s Gravesande) include references to his Camera Obscura designs though the sedan chair itself is not preserved. In"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1650 THE SCENOGRAPH SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (1632-1723) Wren was one of Englands most influential architects mathematicians and scientists best known for his role in rebuilding London after the #GreatFireof1666. Born in #EastKnoyle #Wiltshire Wren was a polymath whose work shaped the architectural landscape of England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. A perspective instrument designed by #ChristopherWren mainly for surveying as Wren said "A Scenographical Instrument to survey at one Station" (1750) using a Camera Obscura or "A Perspective Box to survey with it." It wasnt a"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1660s LANTERNE DE PEUR PIERRE PETIT (15981677) A physicist court engineer and optical theorist Petit was part of the scientific circle of #LouisXIV and is often overlooked in the #historyofprojection and image management. In a rare treatise he described the chambre obscure as a space not just for atmospheric observation but also for visual performances suggesting enhancements like lenses and reflectors to dramatize the projected imagery. He advocated a purposefully theatrical use of the #CameraObscuraa hint of proto cinema's immersive ambitions."
X Link 2026-02-06T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"HOT OFF THE PRESS A report from the University of #Pennsylvania states that photographer and cinematography pioneer Eadweard #Muybridge has taken a series of photographs proving that no matter how hard we try men cant fly. The history-making cinematography below"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Speaking of the winter Olympics Play some hockey"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"SEE Marorama Resurrected: An Illustrated Lecture by Erkki Huhtamo running 58:18. 00:23 23:00 Historical Lecture 23:02 44:51 The Marorama 44:55 57:00 More pre cinema https://vimeo.com/sfci/mareorama https://vimeo.com/sfci/mareorama"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1888 KINETOGRAPH FILMS - MONKEYSHINES N [--] [--] [--] In the same month Le Prince is filming Roundhay Edison applied for patents on the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph (8 October). These were early attempts to create a commercially efficacious Motion Picture camera and projector in the US. Dickson under advisement from Edison developed the Kinetograph for photographing. He based his camera on the Phonograph idea of a rotating drum. Pictured is a tooled cylindrical drum Dickson had made with sprockets to advance the perforated film accurately. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019874227860496843"
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"The experimental and initially horizontal Kinetograph prototype camera made by Dickson between [----] and [----] filmed a figure of a man performing what looks like the action of bending turning and waving at the camera. This would be the second of the three Monkeyshines test films. Images Edison National Historic Site. The film gauge was so small however it was best seen through a microscope. It was not conducive to the Kinetoscope. Patrons would have gone blind trying to see the moving pictures as you will see. These minuscule Monkeyshines images can be seen on the drum. Images Edison"
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"The extremely small frames of a blurred figure waving in the second of three test films (188990) photographed using the Kinetograph prototype. Referred to by the Dickson team initially as monkey tricks history recalls these film strips as the Monkeyshines. As we read from this excerpt from the Dickson book History of the Kinetograph Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph on p133 these "small photographs" were to be discarded and replaced by putting larger images on the outer perimeter of a disk. The experimental and initially horizontal Kinetograph prototype camera made by Dickson between [----] and"
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"MONKEYSHINES N [--] The Kinetograph camera was developed to provide working test film for the nickelodeon Kinetoscope. Here we see how the first photography from the Kinetograph looked like in the Kinetoscope. Animation Charles Musser / Edison National Historic Site. The extremely small frames of a blurred figure waving in the second of three test films (188990) photographed using the Kinetograph prototype. Referred to by the Dickson team initially as monkey tricks history recalls these film strips as the Monkeyshines. As we read https://t.co/dZykV1Suhe The extremely small frames of a blurred"
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"It's amazing what Needham has uncovered from our past. On the matter of magician Shao Ong (Shao Weng) his moving image of a dead concubine of the emperor Wu is as the following passage taken from Needhams work (p122) tells us; Shao Weng reportedly set up a tent with a silk scrim (a translucent screen). Behind the scrim he used a candle and a cut-out silhouette of the deceased concubine passing it between the light source and the screen to project a moving shadow. The emperor positioned in front of the scrim in a dimly lit incense-filled setting perceived this as the ghost of his beloved"
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"The anecdote about Shao Weng (also spelled Shao Ong in some transliterations) and the moving image of Emperor Wus deceased concubine is a well-documented story from the Han dynasty specifically linked to Emperor Wu (Liu Che r. [-----] BC). Needham I believe encountered this story in classical Chinese texts such as the 'Hanshu' (History of the Former Han) by #BanGu and discussed it in the context of early Chinese optical knowledge or proto scientific practices. The story is cited in modern sources such as a [----] article from 'The Stranger' which describes a Shadow Play created by #ShaoWeng to"
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"This sketch from Stephen Herbert is described as a depiction of Uchatius and a domestic moving image show with what appears to be two officers in attendance. The man sitting at the rear of the projector appears to be cranking it. Rossell states this picture is Uchatius in his living room and identifies his source as Robert Kaldy-Karo Ludwig Dbler genius des biedermeier p207. Is that Ludwig and Elise seated near the screen From Archaeology of the Cinema (C. W. Ceram Harcourt Brace and World New York 1965) we find this excerpt. Ceram questions the Uchatius process; Enter a man I'll introduce"
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"1889 RUNNING IN THE SHADOWS WILLIAM CARR CROFTS (18461894) William Carr Crofts is a relatively shadowy figure in early moving image history but he played a substantive technical and collaborative role in the experimental motion picture work he did in the shadow of Wordsworth Donisthorpe being far more than just a passive assistant. He was an Inventor Engineer and Co-Patent Holder co-inventing with Donisthorpe on British Patent [-----] (1889) for a Improvements in the Production and Representation of Instantaneous Photographic Pictures essentially a motion picture camera and projector system the"
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