RTF 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thaumatrope, Phenakistoscope, Celluloid
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Us: increase in people coming from southern + eastern europe, important because they are the pioneers of cinema. People are coming from rural areas and moving into urban areas, around the same time the motion picture was born. Pay close to attention to a trip down market street + module 5. Centuries before celluloid, moving images were created via optical toys. Disk with a picture on each side + two pieces of string attached at each end. Strings are twirls rapidly and the images appear. Cylinder with holes cut out vertically into the side. Band with a sequences of images played around the inner circle. Cylinder spins, viewer peeks through slits (which keep image from blurring together) to see a short moving image sequence. Spinning cardboard disk with vertical handle in center. Animate sequence placed evenly along the edge of disk with small rectangular slits cut evenly between them.
