Isbn: 9780992962814 - the magic lantern dancer : the choreutoscope and its place in the history of the moving image (1 Ergebnisse)

The magic lantern dancer : the choreutoscope and its place in the history of the moving image
Jeremy Brooker (Editor), Richard Crangle (Editor), Martin Gilbert (Editor)
Verlag: Magic Lantern Society, Exeter, 2023
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, Vereinigtes KönigreichJoseph Burridge Books
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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. 148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. The choreutoscope (pronounced cory-ute-o-scope, the name is based on ancient Greek, meaning dancer viewer) was a complex mechanical device used in a magic lantern to change quickly between images, giving a projected illusion of basic movement and often used to portray dancing characters or skeletons. Devised in Britain in the late 1860s, it was used in several different forms throughout Europe and the United States for the rest of the 19th century.…