1867 in animation
Events in 1867 in animation.
Events
- April 23: The inventor William Ensign Lincoln is granted a U.S. patent for his zoetrope, as an assignor to the board game manufacturing company Milton Bradley and Co. This animation device was also patented in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on June 7, 1867 under no. 629, by Henry Watson Hallett, and in the Second French Empire by Charles William May.
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- *In his 1867 account about the origin of the optical toy thaumatrope, the French artist Antoine Claudet stated that he had heard that John Ayrton Paris had once been present when John Herschel demonstrated his rotating coin trick to his children. Paris reportedly got the idea for the thaumatrope from Herschel's trick. Claudet also noted in 1867 that the thaumatrope could create a three-dimensional illusion. A spinning rectangular thaumatrope with the alternating letters of the name "Victoria" on each side, showed the full word with the letters at two different distances from the observer's eye. If the two strings of the thaumatrope are attached to the same side of the card, the thickness of the card accounts for a small difference in the distances when each side is visible.
- *W. R. Hill was Henry Langdon Childe's apprentice in the slide painting art for magic lanterns. In 1867, Hill moved on to work for John Henry Pepper.