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Phenakistiscope

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The phénakisticope (better known as phenakistiscope or the later misspelling phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion of motion. [1]

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Adolphe Quetelet

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSFor FRSE (22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

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Alphonse Giroux

François-Simon-Alphonse Giroux (died May 1, 1848 in Paris) was a French art restorer and ébéniste.

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Animation

Animation is a dynamic medium in which images or objects are manipulated to appear as moving images.

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Anorthoscope

An anorthoscope is a device which demonstrates an optical illusion that turns an anamorphic picture on a disc into a normal image when the disc is spun fast and seen through the four radial slits of a counter-rotating black disc.

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Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is a legal entity under the special protection of the Republic of Austria.

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Brother Jonathan

Brother Jonathan is the national personification of New England.

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Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).

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Dissolving views

Dissolving views were a popular type of 19th century magic lantern show exhibiting the gradual transition from one projected image to another.

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.

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Electrotachyscope

The electrotachyscope is an 1887 invention of Ottomar Anschütz of Germany which presents the illusion of motion with transparent serial photographs, chronophotographs, arranged on a spinning wheel of fortune or mandala-like glass disc, significant as a technological development in the history of cinema.

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Flip book

A flip book or flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change.

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Franz von Uchatius

Franz von Uchatius (1811–1881) was an Austrian artillery general and inventor.

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G.S. Tregear

Gabriel Shear Tregear (1802 – 21 February 1841), also known as Gabriel Shire Tregear, was an English publisher of caricatures and prints.

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GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format, better known by its acronym GIF, is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the bulletin board service (BBS) provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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History of animation

The history of animation started long before the development of cinematography.

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History of film

Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.

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Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Jan Evangelista Purkyně (also written Johann Evangelist Purkinje) (17 or 18 December 1787 – 28 July 1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist.

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Jean-Baptiste Madou

Jean-Baptiste Madou (3 February 1796 – 31 March 1877) was a Belgian painter and lithographer.

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Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller

Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller (30 April 1809, Kassel, Kingdom of Westphalia – 3 October 1875, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German physicist.

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Joseph Plateau

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist.

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Joseph Plateau Award

A Joseph Plateau Award was an accolade presented by the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, first awarded in 1985.

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Le Figaro

Le Figaro is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris.

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List of motion picture film formats

This list of film formats catalogues formats developed for shooting or viewing motion pictures, ranging from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992 IMAX HD format.

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List of multiple discoveries

Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery".

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Lithography

Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water.

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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

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Milton Bradley Company

The Milton Bradley Company was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.

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Optical toys

Optical toys form a group of devices with some entertainment value that usually have a scientific, optical nature.

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Peter Mark Roget

Peter Mark Roget FRS (18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.

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Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria (also fantasmagorie, fantasmagoria) was a form of horror theatre that (among other techniques) used one or more magic lanterns to project frightening images such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts onto walls, smoke, or semi-transparent screens, typically using rear projection to keep the lantern out of sight.

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Praxinoscope

The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope.

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Precursors of film

Much of film as an art form grew out of several earlier traditions in the fields of oral storytelling and literature (relating to the screenplay), theatre (relating to the theatre director/film director, a cast of actors, a production team that can include a scenic or set designer, lighting designer, costume designer) and visual art.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Simon von Stampfer

Simon Ritter von Stampfer (October 26, 1792 (according to other sources 1790), in Windisch-Mattrai, Archbishopric of Salzburg today called Matrei in Osttirol, Tyrol – November 10, 1864 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician, surveyor and inventor.

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Stereoscope

A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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Strobe light

A strobe light or stroboscopic lamp, commonly called a strobe, is a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

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Stroboscope

A stroboscope also known as a strobe, is an instrument used to make a cyclically moving object appear to be slow-moving, or stationary.

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Thaumatrope

A thaumatrope is an optical toy that was popular in the 19th century.

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Thomas Mann Baynes

Thomas Mann Baynes (1794–1876) was an English artist and lithographer.

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Thomas Talbot Bury

Thomas Talbot Bury (26 November 1809 – 23 February 1877) was a British architect and lithographer.

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Zoetrope

A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.

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Zoopraxiscope

The zoöpraxiscope (initially named zoographiscope and zoogyroscope) is an early device for displaying moving images and is considered an important predecessor of the movie projector.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistiscope

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