| Praxinoscope TheatreÉmile Reynaud France 1878 9 1/2" x 101 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Cloth covered theatre. The moving images, reflected in mirrors, are viewed through the box cover to give the illusion of a theatre proscenium. The theatre has twenty strips.
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| Praxinoscope TheatreÉmile Reynaud France 1878 9 1/2" x 101 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Wood theatre. The moving images, reflected in mirrors, are viewed through the box cover to give the illusion of a theatre proscenium.
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| KinematoforErnst Plank Germany c. 1900 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" x 9 1/4"
This hand-cranked praxinescope theatre is styled after Emile Reynaud's theatre patented in 1877.
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| Clussan-Lanauve Watercolor France 9" x 7" 1946
A sketch and subsequent cover for the Cannes International Film Festival of 1946. This is one cover from a series, Petit Historie Du Cinema, done as homage to the pre- cinema roots of the movies.
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