Picture strips for Praxinoscope
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
38 mm (Height); 458 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525285.5
Summary
Seven picture stips for Praxinoscope made of thick light brown paper. Each strip has 12 coloured drawings. The strips fit inside the cylinder of the main body of the Praxinoscope. There are 6 different story scences as two of the strips are identical. The six scenes are as follows: An easter rabbit passing a boy an egg (x2) Two blacksmiths hammering on a forge Three young boys swimming and diving in a pond Three young boys leapfroging over a snowman A clown and a pic on a seesaw going up and down A horse jumping and then reufing to jump a wall
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