Viewing screen for Praxinoscope
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, Paper
Measurements
160 x 160 x 2 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525285.4
Summary
Viewing screen for Praxinoscope A square black cardboard screen wht the corners on the top rounded off. Toward the top of the screen is a square viewing hole and surrounding this on one side is a decorative and colourful paper label with the words Kinematofor. On the back is another paper label. This has an illustration of the Praxinoscope and the instructions in French, German and English. (not gramatically accurate) The words read : "Directions for using. After having arranged the Kinematofor as you see at the illustration, bring one of the pictures in the frame in a way that the ends are fixed against the baret."
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