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Pre-Cinema in the Classroom: The Philosophical Opportunity of Red Raven Movie Records

by Robby Gilbert • October 29, 2018 • 2 Comments

Not long ago I happened upon an original Reynaud praxinoscope for sale in a shop in Paris. Unable to justify its asking price, I began to research more affordable alternatives to share with animation students with whom I have made…

by Alison Reiko Loader • September 3, 2018 • 5 Comments

This post explores the use of the camera obscura as an Early Modern astronomical instrument and shows how that apparatus helped make sequential images of extraordinarily controversial cosmological significance centuries before chronophotography. What follows is the story of how, in…

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Tag Archive for pre-cinema

Pre-Cinema in the Classroom: The Philosophical Opportunity of Red Raven Movie Records

by Robby Gilbert • October 29, 2018 • 2 Comments

Galileo, Sunspots and the Heretical Rotoscope of 1612

by Alison Reiko Loader • September 3, 2018 • 5 Comments