Gruesome grimaces, craftsmen at work, running animals, wild fountains of colours – the “not yet films” from the prehistory of cinema were only sixteen animation images long, but they left people ...
In 1833, mathematician Simon von Stampfer introduced the stroboscopic disc in Vienna—one of the earliest cinema prototypes. The discs feature all forms of animation: abstract and narrative, ...
ON page 543 of vol. III. of the “Dictionary of Applied Physics”, an experimental arrangement is described where the stroboscope disc is illuminated by an intermittent light, using a neon-tube, an ...
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