When we watch a Cartoon HD app or an animated film we do not realize how much this kind of films that apparently may appear newly invented, have an origin rather distant. The first examples of cartoons are in fact much older than those of the traditional film and date back to the end of 1600. The first optical experiments that preparing for the birth of animation cinema, date back to 1675 when the German philosopher and Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, according the common tradition, invented the "magic lantern", the first example of the projector of still images. Thanks to his invention was possible to project on transparent glass paintings and drawings magnified using a light source such as kerosene lanterns or candles simple. The "magic lantern" conquered all spread worldwide within a very short time, ever since they were invented many tools that will lead to the official birth of animation in 1892, with what is considered the first "animator" of history : Émile Reynaud with "optical theater." Before we get to that, though, there have been other inventions. The first dates back to 1824 and was called thaumatrope that was made from a cardboard with a design on both sides that, if spun rapidly, giving the impression of motion of the figures as in cartoons, due to the superposition of the drawings. In 1831, it was invented fenachistiscopio that, in fact, was the result of the union of two prototypes: the fantascopio Joseph Plateau and Simon von Strobe Stampler. The fenachistiscopio consisted of 2 disks joined, on one side there was drawn a circle of similar figures, while on the other there were cracks, was enough to rotate in front of a mirror with the aid of a stick, to see a small sequence in cartoons. The road, however, is still long even if in 1834 it makes a significant step forward with the invention of the zoetrope to work of William Horner, it is a cylinder-shaped machine inside which there was a strip of paper with of small drawings. The cylinder had small slots each of which corresponds to one of the drawings and, thus, looking into the slots and turning the cylinder, it was possible to observe a short animated scene. The invention Horner had some flaws, because the images appeared thinner than they were in reality, therefore, it was not until the invention of the praxinoscope Émile Reynaud (1877) to solve this problem.
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