Praxinoscope
Praxinoscopio
- Date
- 1877 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Émile Reynaud
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Successor to the zoetrope: it replaces the narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, so the reflected images appear almost stationary as the cylinder spins, giving a brighter, less distorted illusion of motion.
What it led to
- Reynaud's Théâtre Optique and the first projected animations (1892)
- A direct forerunner of animation and drawn film