Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical workingWith a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography . subse-quently made by the same inventor. One, shown in , and called the Praxinoscope Theatre^ was designedto show a moving figure on a stage. The praxinoscopewas screwed into positionin the bottom portion of abox, through the lid ofwhich (standing at rightangles) an inspection open-ing was provided. Betweenthis opening and the praxino-scope a sheet of glass, bear-ing a painted proscenium,was held at a slight angle,the opening of the stage being left clear. On
Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical workingWith a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography . subse-quently made by the same inventor. One, shown in , and called the Praxinoscope Theatre^ was designedto show a moving figure on a stage. The praxinoscopewas screwed into positionin the bottom portion of abox, through the lid ofwhich (standing at rightangles) an inspection open-ing was provided. Betweenthis opening and the praxino-scope a sheet of glass, bear-ing a painted proscenium,was held at a slight angle,the opening of the stage being left clear. On theinterior of the lid changeable pictures of scenery couldbe placed, and were seen reflected in the glass as ifthey were really in position behind the stage-front. Atthe same time the moving figures in the praxinoscope(strongly illuminated and drawn on a black background)were seen through the transparent mirror, and thusappeared to be in motion on a stage provided withscenery. This result was also obtained in another manner,which permitted a large number of observers to seethe effect at once. A kind of double magic-lantern. Fig. 25. DIAGRA3I ILLUSIONS. 29 (Fig. 26) was used, one member of which threw somescene on the screen in the ordinary way, while the otherprojected a beam of light through pictures on a trans-parent praxinoscope drum. On leaving the picturesthis light was reflected from the specially angled centralmirrors through a lens on to the screen, where it formedan image of the moving figure superposed on thescenery thrown by the other objective. This apparatus
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