1857 in animation

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Events in 1857 in animation.

Events

• Specific date unknown:
  • In 1857, the earliest known illustration of a vertical biunial magic lantern, probably provided by E.G. Wood, appeared in the Horne & Thornthwaite catalogue.[1] Biunial lanterns, with two projecting optical sets in one apparatus, were produced to more easily project dissolving views.[2]
  • In 1857, the social reformer Florence Nightingale produced "coxcombs" as part of a campaign to improve sanitary conditions in the British Army. It was an early example two-dimensional example of scientific visualization.[3] This prefigured modern scientific visualization techniques that use computer graphics.[4]

Births

January

• January 4: Émile Cohl, French comics artist, caricaturist and film director (Fantasmagorie), (d. 1938).[5][6][7][8]

Specific date unknown

• Romeyn Beck Hough, American botanist and physician (he sold magic lantern and microscope slides made from the thinnest transverse sections), (d. 1924).[9][10]
• George R. Tweedie, English businessman, (he gained fame in 1891 by running a popular magic lantern show, titled "Gossip about Ghosts". The show, which cost sixpence, consisted of fifty slides, each illustrating a story about ghosts or supernatural occurrences), (d. 1937).[11][12][13]

References

1. The Magic Lantern Society. Encyclopedia of the Magic Lantern. pp. 21–22
2. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction. 1842. p. 98.
3. Michael Friendly (2008). "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization".
4. Thomas G.West (February 1999). "Images and reversals: James Clerk Maxwell, working in wet clay". ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 33 (1): 15–17. doi:10.1145/563666.563671. S2CID 13968486.
5. "Émile Cohl". lambiek.net. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
6. Beckerman, Howard (1 September 2003). Animation: the whole story. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-58115-301-9. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
7. Litten, Frederick S. (6 July 2013). "On the earliest (foreign) animation films shown in Japanese cinemas" (PDF). Retrieved 12 September 2013.
8. Donald Crafton; Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film; Princeton Press; ISBN 0-691-05581-5 (1990)
9. "The American Woods". codex99.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
10. US Pat. 335703 Patent application for "Wooden card for business and other purposes". February 9, 1886.
11. "Gossip about ghosts". Slide Readings Library. The Magic Lantern Society. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
12. Page 35, Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture, Author: Annette Hill, Publisher: Routledge, 2010, ISBN 9781136863189, ...One public lecture titled 'Gossip about Ghost' by former chemist George Tweedie claimed 'spook hunting has recently become as fashionable as Slumming'...
13. Page 220, The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science; with which is Incorporated the "Chemical Gazette.": A Journal of Practical Chemistry in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts and Manufactures, Volume 37, Contributor: William Crookes, Publisher:Chemical news office, 1878, ...A process for coating iron with magnetic oxide by the action of heated air. By George R. Tweedie...

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