This set collects together for the first time rare and scattered material on the history of pre-cinema. It includes articles on stereoscopic photography; the use of kaleidoscopes; optical illusions; theatre design; magic lanterns and mirrors; shadow theatre, and much more. The articles are taken from sources such as The Magazine of Science, The Art Journal, The British Journal of Photography, Scientific American, American Journal of Science and Arts, and The Mirror.
Introduction by:
Stephen Herbert
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Spine: 216mm
Weight: 2.480kg
ISBN: 9780415211475
ISBN 10: 0415211476
Series: Routledge Library of Media and Cultural Studies
Pages: 1056
Publication Date: 11 November 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active
Volume One: Part One From Camera Obscura to Chronophotography Camera Obscura The Camera Obscura Magazine of Science [1839] How to make a Camera Obscura Hobbies [1896] Photography Photogenic Drawing Magazine of Science [1839] Photogenic Drawing Magazine of Science [1839] Stereoscopy The Stereoscope, Robert Hunt The Art-Journal [1852] Improved Stereoscope The Art-Journal [1853] The Stereoscope, Robert Hunt The Art-Journal [1856] Stereoscopic Photography Advertisements The Art-Journal [1856] On a New Form of Stereoscope, A. Stroh Proceedings of the Royal Society [1886] Moving Photographs Description of a new Optical Instrument called the Stereotrope, William Thomas Shaw Philosophical Magazine [1861] The Stereotrope, William Thomas Shaw Photographic News [1861] On the Motoroscope, James Laing Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts [1864] Moving photographic figures, A Claudet British Journal of Photography [1865] Photo-Thaumatropy, Walter Woodbury British Journal of Photography [1868] Chronophotography Photographs of a Galloping Horse, Richard A Proctor The Gentleman's Magazine [1881] Animal Locomotion in the Muybridge Photographs The Century [1887] The Electric Tachyscope Scientific American [1889] History of Chronophotography Smithsonian Report [1901] The Story of a Smile The New Penny Magazine [1901] Volume One: Part Two Optical Toys and Devices Magic Mirrors [anamorphics] Magazine of Science [1839] Anamorphosis, or Horizontorium Magazine of Science [1839] The Horizontorium London Mechanics' Register [1825] Description, of the patient kaleidoscope, invented by Dr Brewster Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine [1818] An Improved Kaleidoscope Hobbies [1896] The Thaumatrope London Mechanics' Register [1825] (Thaumatrope) John Bull (1825) Description of the Thaumatrope, David Brewster Edinburgh Journal (1827) A new fact relating to Binocular Vision, A. Claudet Proceedings of the Royal Society (1866/7) Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel seen through vertical apertures, P.M. Roget Philosophical Transactions (1824/5) Description of an instrument for exhibiting a certain Optical deception, E.S. Snell American Journal of Science and Arts (1835) Singular Optical Illusion, T.W. Naylor Mechanic's Magazine (1842) Grandmother's Movies , Harold Avery Strand Magazine (1919) On the Properties of the Daedaleum, a new Instrument of Optical Illusion, W.G. Horner London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine (1834) On the Zoetrope and its antecedents/The Anorthoscope, William B. Carpenter Student and Intellectual Observ
Reviews for A History of Pre-Cinema
'This three volume set is a unique fascimile set of rare documents on Time Based Visual Media. The books concentrate on items published beforde the spread of cinema and later references to devices of that period. Priortity is given to documents that are rare and/or difficult to consult. For this, the set has great value for researchers by giving insight on vintage documents dating back to the period before the dawn of cinematography & cinema' - Early Visual Media.
