phénakistiscope

See also: phenakistiscope

English edit

Noun edit

phénakistiscope (plural phénakistiscopes)

Alternative form of phenakistoscope
- 1969, Roy Paul Madsen, Animated Film: Concepts, Methods, Uses, New York, N.Y.: Interland Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 7:
  In 1829 he [Joseph Plateau] constructed a circular device, the phénakistiscope, on which sixteen pictures were mounted (Figure 1.5).
- 1981, Lynda Corey Claassen, “National Museum of American History”, in Finders’ Guide to Prints and Drawings in the Smithsonian Institute, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, page 90:
  Motion picture prehistory is documented by hand-colored phénakistiscope (1832) and Fantascope (1833) discs, by zoetrope strips (c1867), and by woodcuts showing peep shows;
- 1996, Fatimah Tobing Rony, “Notes to Chapter Two”, in The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 231:
  Throughout the early twentieth century, [Félix] Regnault wrote about cinema and its history, a history he saw as an evolution originating from both science and popular entertainment, beginning with the concept of the persistence of the image on the retina, [Joseph] Plateau’s phénakistiscope, and [Émile] Reynaud’s praxinoscope, and reaching its apex with the invention of cinema by [Étienne-Jules] Marey, whom Regnault referred to as le père du du cinéma (Félix Regnault, “L’évolution du cinéma,” La revue scientifique [1922]: 7985).
- 1998, Keith J. Laidler, “Daguerre, Talbot, and the legacy of photography: […]”, in To Light Such a Candle: Chapters in the History of Science and Technology, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 101:
  [Joseph] Plateau sent one of his phénakistiscopes as a present to Michael Faraday.
- 2004, Norman E. Tutorow, “The First Motion Picture”, in The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus, Spokane, Wash.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, →ISBN, page 474:
  For example, in the French original of Machine animale, [Étienne-Jules] Marey writes that Mathias Marie Duval used a phénakistiscope;