1859 in animation


Events in 1859 in animation.

Events

April 7: the Belgian civil engineer and inventor Henri Désiré du Mont filed a Belgian patent for nine different versions of his Omniscope, of which most would show stereoscopic animation from stroboscopic discs or from cylinders with pictures on the outside. One version was built inside a peep-box and had a lens focusing a light-beam to project the image on a frosted glass screen. Another design combined two zoetropes with Charles Wheatstone's reflecting stereoscope in between.

Births

February

February 7: Alexander Black, American photographer, inventor, and writer,.

December

December 1: Constantin Philipsen, Danish filmmaker,,.

Specific date unknown