The Path to Cinema
Movies weren’t the world’s first form of visual entertainment. The cinematic experience we know today evolved from a long tradition of optical illusions and devices of wonder. Over centuries, storytellers and inventors experimented with visual effects, light, projection, and motion to bring still images to life. Discover a collection of items that recall our path to cinema.
About the Exhibit:
Path to Cinema: Highlights from the Richard Balzer Collection will explore how the cinematic experience we know today evolved from a long tradition of optical amusements and devices of wonder: from shadow play, peepshows, magic lanterns, zoetropes and praxinoscopes to the Cinématographe Lumière, the world’s first successful film projector.
GALLOPING HORSE FLIPOSCOPE CLASSIC
Fliposcope - Galloping Horse Hand-cranked movie machine with the historic “Galloping Horse” Edweard Muybridge motion study that has become an animation icon. Includes all movie machine parts and printed card deck.
$35.95
CHARLIE CHAPLIN FLIPOSCOPE CLASSIC
Hand Cranked Movie Machine featuring Charlie Chaplin. Fliposcope If you want to make your own flip-scene, make sure to get a Blank Card Kit or select that option.(Crafters who just plan to build it, may want to select the "Fliposcope...
$39.95
METROPOLIS FLIPOSCOPE CLASSIC
Hand Cranked Movie Machine featuring the film Metropolis. Fliposcope If you want to make your own flip-scene, make sure to get a Blank Card Kit or select that option.(Crafters who just plan to build it, may want to select the...
$39.95
MODERNIST PRAXINOSCOPE - BLACK
Optical Toy, Praxinoscope Miniature Reproduction - Transforms static images into a moving sequence, thanks to retinal persistence. A circular drum is rotated with mirrors in the centre of the drum reflecting images drawn on strips of paper placed around it....
$93.00
MOVIE CLASSICS
Movie Classics Vol. 1 – The Early MastersFlipbookThe Movie Classics Flipbook is a surprising 6×1 flipbook that brings beloved film classics like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or Charlie Chaplin’s Gold Rush back to life.Switch between sequences by placing your thumb on...
$18.00
HEMISFERIUM MINI PRAXINOSCOPE
The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing...
$54.00
HEMISFERIUM MINI ZOETROPE
From the first scientific toys to modern cinema, they rely on retinal persistence to make us believe that a series of static images are in motion. In 1834, the English mathematician William George Horner proposed an apparatus based on Plateau...
$54.00
GOLD PRAXINOSCOPE
Praxinoscope is a beautiful reproduction of the incredible invention of Frenchman Emile ReynaudHow does the Praxinoscope work? Quite simply:It transforms static images into a moving sequence, thanks to retinal persistence. A circular drum is rotated, the mirrors in the centre...
$93.00
ZOETROPE PIN
ZOETROPE MOVING HORSE PIN Gold plated brass pin with hard enamel. Size is 1.6"Comes individually packaged with two gold butterfly clasps.
$12.00
MARILYN MONROE SEVEN YEAR ITCH FLIPBOOK
Fliptomania Marilyn Monroe Flipbook This Marilyn Monroe book shows one of the most famous scenes in American film history. Watch Marilyn Monroe cool off by standing over a New York subway vent. Ooh-la-la! Check out the 4-second video to see...
$5.00
12 PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION
The 12 Basic Principles Of Animation by FlipbokuThis double flip book edition is a handy but powerful tool for fans, beginners, students, teachers and professionals of the animation world, to learn and master the illusion of motion and physics in...
$38.40
ALICE GUY-BLACHE FLIPBOKU
Alice Guy-Blaché FlipbookTHE MOTHER OF CINEMAAlice Guy-Blaché (1873 – 1968) was a pioneer French filmmaker and the first motion picture director to make a narrative fiction film, active from the late 19th century. Neglected by film historians for years, she...
$18.00
GEORGE MELIES FLIPBOKU
Georges Méliès FlipbookTHE MAGICIAN OF CINEMAGeorges Méliès (1861 – 1938) was a French illusionist, actor and film director who pioneered many technical and narrative developments, and became one of the most influential filmmakers in the early history of cinema.Méliès was...
$18.00
THE WIZARD OF OZ FLIPBOOK
The Wizard of Oz Full color flipbook glossy print. They don’t get more classic than this! The famous foursome — Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion — skip arm in arm out of the poppy field and down the...
$5.00
MUYBRIDGE CAT FLIPBOOK
This flipbook of Eadweard Muybridge's Cat Running is rather amazing. As you view the images you might be reminded of your cat, but the photos were shot over 120 years ago! A classic piece of photography history. Full color flipbook, glossy, 2"...
$5.00
NORTH BY NORTHWEST FLIPBOOK
You know it could only be one scene: A dashing (and we mean dashing!) Cary Grant sprints through a corn field as a mysterious crop duster swoops down and sprays machine gun fire at our hero.Full color flipbook, glossy, 2"...
$5.00
CHARLIE CHAPLIN FLIPBOOK: THE CIRCUS
Charlie Chaplin's legendary character The LIttle Tramp always found a way to have a jaunty-jolly hop in his step as he strolled into the sunset. This scene is from one of his most entertaining films, "The Circus" made in 1928. Sir Charles...
$5.00
CHARLIE CHAPLIN FLIPBOOK, VOLUME 2, DINNER ROLL DANCE
CHARLIE CHAPLIN FLIPBOOK, VOLUME 2, DINNER ROLL DANCE Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film....
$5.00
THE BLANKO FLIPBOOK
The Blanko FlipbookFlipbookThe Blanko Flipbook contains 320 blank pages on which you can animate whatever comes to your mind. If you’re new to animation, learn how to get started with 6 of the basic principles of animation we have included:...
$12.00
KING KONG FLIPBOOK
This flipbook features one of the all-time great scenes from one of the all-time great movies. The mighty Kong perches high atop the Empire State Building, swatting at bi-planes as he vainly attempts to escape a hostile, ignorant world.Full color...
$5.00
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS OST (ZOETROPE PICTURE DISC)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Zoetrope Picture Disc 2 LP]by Various Artists | Sep 29, 2023 FEATURES:Double LPZoetrope Picture DiscDanny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Track ListingsDisc: 11 Overture - (The Nightmare Before Christmas)2...
$35.00
CHARLIE CHAPLIN FLIPBOOK: THE RINK
The great Charlie Chaplin demonstrates his graceful roller skating skills and style in this scene from one of his earlier comedy masterpieces, "The Rink" made in 1916. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December...
$5.00
