Zoopraxiscope
Zoopraxiscopio
- Date
- 1879 · confidence high
- Place
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Credited to
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Field
- Communication
What it is
An early device for projecting moving images from glass discs painted with Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences, considered an important predecessor of the movie projector.
Most of its 71 known discs were hand-painted silhouettes, not photographs; only one used real photographic images, of a horse skeleton.
What it led to
- Public demonstration that Muybridge's photographic sequences were authentic
- A technical precedent for the film projector
Built on
- Chronophotography