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Christian Huygens begins to develop the magic lantern
which proiects images from glass
slides. -
Descriptions of mechanical slides for the magic lantern begin. These involved extra pieces of glass that could be moved by hand.
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John Ayrton
Paris invents the
Thaumatope
Based on theory of persistence of vision.
This theory has now been rejected. -
Joseph
Plateau develops the Phenakistosc ope, which is a series of evenly spaced images, painted onto a rotating disc. -
Eadweard
Muybridge projects moving images onto screen.
Zoopraxiscope:
Developed by Muybridge to project moving images. -
J. Stuart
Blackton and
Albert E.
Smith make
The Humpty
Dumpty
Circus.
This was the first use of stop motion but the film is now lost. -
Arthur Melbourne
Cooper makes
'Matches an
Appeal'. -
James Stuart
Blackton makes 'Humorous Phases
of Funny Faces'. He used stop-
motion and cut out. -
Emile Cohl makes the first cut-out animation, 'En Route' -this is entirely cut
outs. Cohl used this technique to save time as the cut out shapes could
be adiusted. -
Animator Willis ~'Brien works on The Lost
World'. The film mixed stop- motion animation with live
action. -
Ancient Egyptians painted or carved scenes onto surfaces, these showed characters in slightly altered positions, suggesting
movement.