Early Cinema Gateway
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- David Crawford - Stop Motion Studies
Artist's site, with stop motion photographic sequences, mostly taken on tube trains, animated with Flash, bringing together artistry with the spirit of chronophotography to create a unique visual experience. - Grand Illusions
Though not on cinema as such, this excellent, eye-opening site illuminatingly covers "optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic". Plenty to delight, intrigue and amaze, and includes an essay by Stephen Herbert on the persistence of vision fallacy. - Philosophical Toy World
A fascinating site created by 'The Society for Etheric Research' (essentially multimedia artist Zoe Beloff) which examines optical toys and other pre-cinema devices from a theoretical basis, combining through-provoking analyses with ingeniously-imagined web design, QuickTime movies and Shockwave animations. - www.tinfoil.com
The best source for learning all about the Edison phonograph and other early systems for recorded sound, with a delightful range of recordings available on-line.