Praxinoscope optical antique toy with 10 animation strips anachronism USA seller

Description

The Praxinoscope
is an antique animation device which shows moving images using a mirror system, a toy similar to a zoetrope. You could also think of it as an old-timey .gif machine. The miracle of animation is easy to overlook with our current onslaught of CGI and dime-a-dozen cartoon series. There's something really cool about seeing animation in its original form. It's beautiful simplicity invokes a wonder almost impossible to experience in the modern world. Playing with these toys is a kind of meditation that puts you in touch with the root functionality of consciousness (i.e. compiling data points to create meaning and cohesive experience). This is probably why you see these most often in horror movies and psychedelic environments. It also looks cool on the shelf. This is a handmade item from a Russian seller who specializes in antique animation toys. Shipping from Russia is expensive and slow, so I imported a few Praxinoscopes and Animorphoscopes to make them more available in the U.S. For a wider selection, you can visit the toymaker's store Animationtoys Https://www.ebay.com/usr/animationtoys.
The set contains:
- Praxinoscope toy made of 3mm plywood and plastic mirror
- 10 strips with special animation images made of thick glossy paper
Brand New Model. Released in 2019 in an edition of 100 copies.
This set is an exact replica of a antique 19th century toy.
All images in the set are copied from ancient paintings.
Original set was released in 1877 in France by Charles Emile Reynaud.
Size of the toy: 21.5 x 21.5 x 14 cm (8.3 x 8.3 x 5.5 in
The size of the strips: 5 x 63 cm (2 x 24.8 in)
Weigh of set: 450g
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 slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered. In addition to the zoetrope, the opening of this toy was preceded by thaumatrope and phenakistiscope.