Pre-cinematic Animation Devices
Presentation, Reproductive Processes, Vision
The Richard Balzer Collection
Paul Burns’s The History of the Discovery of Cinematography
http://www.precinemahistory.net/
Early Visual Media
Website explaining and displaying intriguing and forgotten early vintage visual media and their history.
George Eastman House Pre-Cinema Tech Collection
http://www.geh.org/fm/precin/htmlsrc/precine_sld00001.html
Flipbook.info
http://www.flipbook.info/index_en.php
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr.’s Photographic Collections of Optical Recreations, Kenyon College
Collection includes images and descriptions of kaleidoscopes, moiré patterns, phantascopes, phenikistiscopes, praxinoscopes, stereoscopic effects, thaumatropes, and zoetropes.
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Titlepage/Optical_Recreations.html
Laura Hayes and John Howard Exhibit of Optical Toys, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/opticaltoys.htm
Toshio Iwai at Animation World Magazine
http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.11/3.11pages/morseiwai.php3
The Magic Lantern Society, UK
http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/
Museo del Precinema, Collection Minici Zotti
http://www.minicizotti.it/?lang=en
Cinematography Collection at the National Media Museum, UK
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Collections/Collection_Department.asp?DeptID=2
Sarabande Press
Centennial Salute to Cinema Exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
http://photo2.si.edu/cinema/cinema.html