Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
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Bünzli l'Animateur

Artist:

René Bünzli

Date:

1900

Material:

Photopaper

Dimensions:

Width: 10 cm

Company:

Manufacture Française d'Appareils de Précision

Location:

Paris, France

3D movie printed on paper. Fragment of a 10 second experimental movie made by René Bünzli. Viewable by only one person at a time through a special viewer.

Note the moving mirror at top center of the patent drawing in image 4. The film advances continuously while the mirror rotates to follow the frame, thus maintaining a still virtual image (a process called image stabilization by Lipton, p. 168). As the cam (marked "e" in the drawing) turns, a pin on the cam travels up and down a slot in a lever attached to the axis of the mirror, rocking it back and forth. The use of a moving mirror for image stabilization appears in several devices with different mechanisms for turning the mirror, beginning with the praxinoscope and including the parlor kinetoscope.

Images swapped for cross-eyed viewing
Drawing from French patent (FR 296332)