Fenakisticope

Tin drum & wood base

Holland

c.1870

13 1/2" hi., 11 3/4" diam.

 

 

0567



Cinematographe Enfantin

Paper drum & wood base

France

c. 1870

11" hi., drum: 9 1/2" diameter

 

 

0568


The Zoetrope

Milton Bradley  Co.

Paper drum & wood base

America

c. 1870

7" hi., drum 4" diam

 

Zoetrope and the box it came in.

 

0570



Tin drum & wood base

c. 1880

16 1/2" hi., 11" diam.

 

Wood handle for turning drum.

 

 

0571



Tin drum & tin & wood base

c. 1880

13" hi., 11" diam.

 

 

0572



Zootrope Cercle Magique

May Brevete S.G.D.G.

Paper drum &  wood and metal base

France

1880

14" hi., 11" diam.

 

 

 

0573



George Carette

Germany

c. 1870

5 5/8" hi., 4 1/4" diam.

 

1342

 

 


Paper drum & wood base

7 3/4" hi., 6" diam.

 

1345



The Zoetrope

Milton Bradley

America

c. 1870

9" hi.,

 

 

0575


L' Animateur

Tin drum & wood base

France

c. 1900

4" hi., 51/4" diam.

 

This small zoetrope like device rather than having aseries of slis all around the drum has four openings and rather than a continous strip inside the drum has four images placed in a cross and when the drum in spun an effect very similar to that created by a zoetrope occurs.

 

0569



Tin

England

c. 1920

5" hi., 5" diam.

 

Art deco decorated biscuit tin which can be used as a zoetrope.,

 

 

0578



Zoetrope Strip Press

Painted wood

c. 1880

37 1/4" x 4 5/8" x 2 1/2'

 

An ingenious device to flatten and store Zoetrope strips.

 

 

0579

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