1857 in animation

Events in 1857 in animation.

Events

• Specific date unknown:
  • In 1857, the earliest known illustration of a vertical biunial magic lantern, probably provided by E.G. Wood, appeared in the Horne & Thornthwaite catalogue.^[1] Biunial lanterns, with two projecting optical sets in one apparatus, were produced to more easily project dissolving views.^[2]
  • In 1857, the social reformer Florence Nightingale produced "coxcombs" as part of a campaign to improve sanitary conditions in the British Army. It was an early example two-dimensional example of scientific visualization.^[3] This prefigured modern scientific visualization techniques that use computer graphics.^[4]

Births

January

• January 4: Émile Cohl, French comics artist, caricaturist and film director (Fantasmagorie), (d. 1938).^[5][6][7][8]

Specific date unknown

• Romeyn Beck Hough, American botanist and physician (he sold magic lantern and microscope slides made from the thinnest transverse sections), (d. 1924).^[9][10]
• George R. Tweedie, English businessman, (he gained fame in 1891 by running a popular magic lantern show, titled "Gossip about Ghosts". The show, which cost sixpence, consisted of fifty slides, each illustrating a story about ghosts or supernatural occurrences), (d. 1937).^[11][12][13]