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praxinoscope

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Prax`in´o`scope
n.1.(Opt.) An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.

praxinoscope
an instrument that represents the effect of moving images on a screen.
See also: Films, Instruments, Representation


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From an 18th century Kinora - a motion picture for the home where a wheel is rotated by a handle and the pictures when viewed through a lens give the illusion of motion - to Praxinoscope, Zoetropes and other objects operating on similar principle demonstrate early attempts at animation.
In the next shot she is shown walking over to a table and setting off a praxinoscope machine before then pulling a small wooden viewfinder in front of this optical toy so that the latter's spinning sequence of images of a dove in flight now appears more clearly defined within the borders of a small rectangular frame.
Research and report about other scientific animation toys such as the thaumatrope, kineograph, mutoscope, praxinoscope, or zoopraxiscope.
 
 
 
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