Zoopraxiscope Projector (reproduction)

OBJECT TYPE: Projector
MANUFACTURER: Muybridge, Eadweard J.
NATIONALITY: unknown
PLACE MANUFACTURED: unknown
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1881
PRODUCTION DATES: 1881-
PATENT DATE: 1879/ 1880
IMAGE SIZE: 31 cm Diameter
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: dry plate

NOTES:
  Projector for glass disc images, slit shutter rotates opposite
  direction from the image disc. Glass disc contains 12 images, shutter
  contains 12 slits. Originally called Zoogyroscope, then renamed
  Zoopraxiscope, design is similar in operation to Phenakistoscope.
  "The Zoopraxiscope projector, 1879, was designed by Muybridge to
  project glass discs bearing sequences of pictures painted from the
  photographic series. Images were elongated to compensate for the
  foreshortening effect introduced in all such devices." (Coe:45-46)
  Dimensions: 41.0cm H x 45.0cm W x 48.0cm L.

MATERIAL VIEWED/PROJECTED: glass

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: M994.00001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Coe, Brian. --The History of Movie Photography.-- Eastview Editions, 1981. 45-47.//