Praxinoscope.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Mirror
Measurements
70 mm (Height); 158 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525285.1
Summary
Praxinoscope. Metal cylinder which has been soldered together. It has a central metal drum with 12 rectangular mirrors around and a raised top on which ia stampled a wheel with two wings and the intials E.D. On the base of the cylinder is a slot in which to place the spindle so that it can spin.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986