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Magic Machines :  A History of the Moving Image from Antiqity to 1900

Timeline

Antiquity to 1825  |  1826 to 1875  |  1876 to 1890  |  1891 to 1895  |  1896 to 1900

Associated sites developed from the above pages

CAMERA_OBSCURA.html

CINEORAMA.html - soon
HORNORS_COLOSSEUM.html (Colisseum) - soon
CYCLORAMA.html
DIORAMA.html
DRAWING_MACHINES.html
MAGIC_LANTERNS.html
MAREORAMA.html - soon
PANORAMA.html
PEEP_SHOW.html
PHANTASMAGORIE.html
WYLDS_GREAT_GLOBE.html - soon
VUE_D_OPTIQUE.html

References

A comprehensive list of books dealing with this subject is available in the bibliography attached to this site

Two most excellent online companions to this work are

The Complete History of The Discovery of Cinematography by Paul T. Burns and...

Animations the superb recreation of 19th century moving imagery by Charl Lucassen

other online sites of particular note...

George Eastman House 'Technology Archive'

Magic Lantern Castle Museum - Jack Judson
The Magic Mirror of Life - Jack and Beverly Wilgus
The Projection Box - Stephen Herbert

also...

The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture

Build a Zoetrope
Fuesslin Verlag for a great range of books on optical devices and processes.
How to Read a Film
Magic Lanterns
MOMI The Museum of the Moving Image
Museo n Popular-science museum, The Hague, Netherlands
Optical Toys - Andy Voda
Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Photographic Services
Random Motion: Zoetrope Animation by Ruth Hayes
Reanimation einer Chronophotographie von Georges Demeny (1891) - Michael Scholl
Sunny Hillside Antiques
Magic Lantern Collection 'de Luikerwaal', Henc R.A. de Roo, Huizen, the Netherlands
Towards a History of the Cinema Theatre

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