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Disc magic lantern Manufacturer Edouard Virgile Lapierre Name Cinématographe E.V.L. Place France Date a partir 1898 Register 801 |
This rare device was designed and patented by Edouard Virgile Lapierre as a film toy for projecting cartoons. It used discs 24 cm in diameter, which were placed inside a wooden box located on the front of the lantern, which contained an intermittent rotation system of the disk. Each disc had on its perimeter images drawn from the sequence of a movement. The disc was rotated with a crank, and the lantern on the back illuminated the projected image. The Cinématographe E.V.L. could also be used as a simple magic lantern by removing the wooden box containing the discs with the images. Edouard Virgile Lapierre was the son of August Lapierre, founder of a major French magic lantern manufacturing company in 1848, and which he continued to run.
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Kinephone. Circa 1925. Essentially zoetrope/phenakistiscope disks designed to be played and viewed on a gramophone turntable.
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Chromolithographic Loops. 1907-1912. These short loops (below) were manufactured in Germany for Ernst Plank magic lanterns equipped with a maltese cross/geneva gear and a simple shutter mechanism. They were meant for children and used chromolithographic printing to achieve early color film projection.
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Emile Reynaud
Praxinoscope Theatré Strips c. 1890
Praxinoscope Theatré Strips c. 1890
Ernst Plank
Kinematofor Strips c. 1890
Kinematofor Strips c. 1890
Emile Reynaud
Praxinoscope Strips c 1875
Praxinoscope Strips c 1875
Video of Chromolithographic Loops