Praxinoscope à projection
Projector
Charles- Émile Reynaud
French, ca. 1870s–1890s
Praxinoscope à projection
ca. 1880
Wood, metal, glass, mirror, and paper
Overall (slide tray on its stand): 16 1/8 × 11 × 14 9/16 in. (41 × 28 × 37 cm)
Overall (projection head on its lamp): 21 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (54 × 21 × 16.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer, 1972
DescriptionLacquered-purple, vaulted, electrically powered, Praxinoscope head, with two projection lenses, animation slides, reflector, stand, and reversing mirror connected to a projection head on a lamp.
Inscriptions Printed in ink on circular paper label on top of slide tray: PRAXINOSCOPE A PROJECTION, BREVETÉ S.G.D.G., PATENTED in ENGLAND, ER, DÉPOSÉ / Printed in black ink on circular paper label on top of slide tray, L and R: [brief instructions on placement of slides, in French on left and in English on right] / Printed in black ink on white label applied to circular label on top of slide tray: E.REYNAUD, INV. BREV. S.G.D.G., 58, Rue Rodier, PARIS / Embossed on metal on circular plate applied to exterior of reversing mirror: BREVETÉ S.G.D.G. PATENTED, PARIS, ER / Printed in black ink, oval label under slide tray: INTRODUIRE, la petite goupille dans le trou, ci-contre / Embossed on metal on circular plate applied to exterior of projection head: BREVETÉ S.G.D.G. PATENTED, PARIS, ER / Embossed in metal on lamp body: Juno Lamp, MADE in U.S.A.
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