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Museum of the Moving Image: Optical Room

Curated by ACT

Take a tour through the history of moving images from the earliest times into the mid-1910s. The tour begins with pre-cinema devices and practices, including shadow plays and optical toys, and covers film and photography pioneers and their contributions to the development of motion pictures.

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camera obscura, early cameras, early cinema, early motion pictures, early photography, film history, history of film, kinetoscope, magic lantern, pre-cinema, zoetrope, museum of the moving image: optical room, kinetophone, mutoscope, optical toys, phenakistiscope, praxinoscope
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)