Motoscope viewing disk

Motoscope viewing disk

Pre-cinema

Motoscope viewing disk

[Phenakistoscope viewing disc]


ca. 1838
Cardboard
Diameter: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on recto, C: Original du \ Motoscope

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