Choreutoscope
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The '''choreutoscope'''(pronounced cory-ute-o-scope, based on ancient Greek, meaning 'dancer viewer'){{Cite web |title=The magic lantern dancer : the choreutoscope and its place in the history of the moving image {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1360238275 |access-date=2026-04-23 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}} is a late 19th century type of [[magic lantern]] slide designed to project moving images, with a hand-cranked [[Maltese cross]] mechanism intermitently pulling six depictions of phases of a movement in front of the lens. It has been regarded as one of the first intermittent transportation mechanism for projected images, resembling later cinematographic cameras and projectors. {{Cite web |title=Pre-cinema resources |url=http://www.museudelcinema.cat/eng/colleccio_recursos.php?idreg=1654 |access-date=2019-11-20 |website=www.museudelcinema.cat}} |
The '''choreutoscope''' (pronounced cory-ute-o-scope, based on ancient Greek, meaning 'dancer viewer'){{Cite web |title=The magic lantern dancer : the choreutoscope and its place in the history of the moving image {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1360238275 |access-date=2026-04-23 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}} is a late 19th century type of [[magic lantern]] slide designed to project moving images, with a hand-cranked [[Maltese cross]] mechanism intermitently pulling six depictions of phases of a movement in front of the lens. It has been regarded as one of the first intermittent transportation mechanism for projected images, resembling later cinematographic cameras and projectors. {{Cite web |title=Pre-cinema resources |url=http://www.museudelcinema.cat/eng/colleccio_recursos.php?idreg=1654 |access-date=2019-11-20 |website=www.museudelcinema.cat}} |
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A typical subject was the 'dancing skeleton' (or ''[[Danse Macabre]]''). |
A typical subject was the 'dancing skeleton' (or ''[[Danse Macabre]]''). |
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