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Phenakistoscope

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Phen`a`kis´to`scope
n.1.A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen.
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However, Gioli's cinema takes us even further back than the creation-myth of proto-cinema--through the Thaumatropes, Phenakistoscopes and first chronophotographic devices--back towards the birthplace of photographic images, the first positive Heliographic image of a window in Joseph Niepce's studio.
Free films made freely: Paolo Gioli and experimental filmmaking in ... by Rumble, Patrick / CineAction
His preoccupation with early cinema and the various visual apparatuses prefiguring it, has dictated the direction of his more recent works, for example Phenakistoscope (2000) and 7 Fragments for Georges Melies (2003).
Kate Sands on the art of witness by Sands, Kate / Arena Magazine
Those are the more familiar -- Sterling also mentions the phenakistoscope, the teleharmonium and something called Telefon Hirmondo.
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