The Zoopraxiscope: A Couple Waltzing – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Zoopraxiscope: A Couple Waltzing, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Zoopraxiscope: A Couple Waltzing
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Few images on this board show the early machinery of motion pictures as directly as this color lithograph, which reproduces one of the painted discs Eadweard Muybridge designed for his zoopraxiscope, a projector that cast hand-drawn sequences of movement onto a screen. Here a couple waltzes in a series of positions, so that a viewer who spun the disc would see the dancers move. Muybridge built on his earlier photographic studies of animals and people in motion, and the zoopraxiscope shows like this one were a popular form of entertainment in the early 1890s. The print is also an early example of how dance and motion became subjects for pioneers of film.
| Created / published | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, color |
| Notes | Eadweard Muybridge |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,268 × 3,135 px · prints to 11 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221179 |
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