LIONEL SMITH BEALE - CHORENTOSCOPE OPTICAL TOY 1866
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pictures he had drawn, using his invention, the Chorentoscope
(or Choreutoscope). This
very simple optical toy is hand-held and is cranked by a small
handle, which draws a lantern slide through the apparatus using
a small gear. Six images are seen in succession for a split-second
each.
In the files we have provided above, we see a Beale Chorentoscope
ca. 1866. The slide, viewing area and crank are all clearly
visible. As the cranking takes place the 'dancing skeleton'
dances through a sequence of six images.
Movement is obviously not fluid as the number of images is
few and, the speed of the cranking would never equal 14 frames
per second. Even if cranked faster, six images disappear quickly
before any fluidity would be detected.
toy is simple daylight however it can be held before another source such
as a lamp, on the slide-side of the device. A shutter closed in between
images, keeping unwanted light from the view opening. To see a working
Chorentoscope
using Adobe Flash, go to The
Getty Museum's Devices Of Wonder. Choose the Chorentoscope
image in the lower right corner and see this optical device as it would
have (and still does) appear.
states that Beale projected drawn pictures with his Chorentoscope
or Choreutoscope in 1866. My research also suggests that
this event may have happened in 1872 as Quigley states (p172 of Magic
Shadows). Both men however agree that Beale accomplished this in
England. Still mysterious is the entry directly above this, where Quigley
on the same page states the Choreutoscope is that of
Molteni. These two entries [ MOLTENI 1865 "Choreutoscope
Tournant, using an intermittent movement similar to that of Armat (1897)"
AND BEALE 1866 ] are interesting because of the similarity
in dates, names of device and the description of each. Both Ceram and
Quigley are quoted as saying these (or this) machine(s)
had the Maltese Cross intermittent movement mechanism,
and both are off only by one year. No other research has uncovered what
the truth of the matter may be.
LIONEL SMITH BEALE ( - )
England to project thinly cut brass rimmed images using intermittent shutter
action similar to the latter-known Maltese Cross projector.
He called his device a Chorentoscope, as did Molteni.
An illustrated Chronological History of the Development of Motion Pictures Covering 2500 Years Leading to the Discovery of Cinematography in the 1800's
http://precinemahistory.net
-- Paul Burns
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