Friday 24 February 2012

The Chromatrope. A Victorian artificial "firework".


This is the slide part of an early Psychedelic visual display for the home. The projectionist would fit the wooden "slide" into an early oil lamp or candle powered slide projector type apparatus which would throw the image out. There are then two printed glass disks on the slide, one static and one that revolves when the small handle is cranked.Thus creating the spectacle.

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