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The Richard Balzer Collection
Phenakistoscope, T.M. Baynes, Great Britain, 1833Happy Halloween from The Richard Balzer Collection.
These Proto-GIFs of the 19th Century Put Today's GIFs to Shame
19th-century proto GIF animations, The Richard Balzer Collection
Animated GIFs of 19th Century Phenakistoscope Animations
Animated GIFs of 19th Century Phenakistoscope Animations
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dickbalzer: Phenakistoscope - England - 1833 - Published by Thomas McLain, London
155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope — Colossal
155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope history gifs animation
155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope — Colossal
155 Years Animated Gif
155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope — Colossal
Too Cool! Nearly 155 years before CompuServe debuted the first animated gif in 1987, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau unveiled an invention called the Phenakistoscope, a device that is largely considered to be the first mechanism for true animation. The simple gadget relied on the persistence of vision principle to display the illusion of images in motion.