Praxinoscope and Théâtre Optique
Praxinoscope-
The praxinoscope, an animation device used to play a sequence of pictures frame by frame, was a more clean or for lack of a better word more convenient way to view animation slides. The inventor, Charles-Émile Reynaud, created this new slide viewing device in 1877 in France. Something like this had been created before, known as the zoetrope, but what was so different about this design and what really drew my attention to this topic was the use of the mirrors on the inside of the device. In the zoetrope you were unable to view the slides unless you looked through tiny holes cut in the side of the hollowed out cylinder that held the slides. However, in the praxinoscope it was designed that you could see all of the images through mirrors placed in the middle of the device, creating a seamless view of the drawings as they flash by. Some of these devices would also eventually come to be powered by motors, preventing the viewer from having to turn the device manually. Along with that some other inventors would build off of Charles invention too, one especially intriguing invention created by Reynaud. He called the invention the Théâtre Optique. What was interesting about this new invention was that as you can see it looks as though it is two praxinoscopes tied together with film. By doing this It was able to hold even more film with slides holding pictures and even was able to cast these images onto a blank canvass for audiences to enjoy. Compared to the praxinoscope that could maybe hold a few slides this new device could hold up to fifty meters of film tape which was groundbreaking. With this new invention the inventor was said to host around 12,800 shows to locals and over 500,000 visitors came from around the area of Paris to the Musée Grévin see this grand new invention and experience it for themselves. This was the beginning of animation being shown to an entire audience at once. 
The praxinoscope, an animation device used to play a sequence of pictures frame by frame, was a more clean or for lack of a better word more convenient way to view animation slides. The inventor, Charles-Émile Reynaud, created this new slide viewing device in 1877 in France. Something like this had been created before, known as the zoetrope, but what was so different about this design and what really drew my attention to this topic was the use of the mirrors on the inside of the device. In the zoetrope you were unable to view the slides unless you looked through tiny holes cut in the side of the hollowed out cylinder that held the slides. However, in the praxinoscope it was designed that you could see all of the images through mirrors placed in the middle of the device, creating a seamless view of the drawings as they flash by. Some of these devices would also eventually come to be powered by motors, preventing the viewer from having to turn the device manually. Along with that some other inventors would build off of Charles invention too, one especially intriguing invention created by Reynaud. He called the invention the Théâtre Optique. What was interesting about this new invention was that as you can see it looks as though it is two praxinoscopes tied together with film. By doing this It was able to hold even more film with slides holding pictures and even was able to cast these images onto a blank canvass for audiences to enjoy. Compared to the praxinoscope that could maybe hold a few slides this new device could hold up to fifty meters of film tape which was groundbreaking. With this new invention the inventor was said to host around 12,800 shows to locals and over 500,000 visitors came from around the area of Paris to the Musée Grévin see this grand new invention and experience it for themselves. This was the beginning of animation being shown to an entire audience at once.
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