ISURO : Le Manège de l'image

'Le Manège de l'Image'

Subject : This project was conceived at the time of the ceremonies of centenaire of the cinema. The device was established place of the Humans right Place, inside the Trocadéro building.
Design : William Picot - Gérard Lemouel
Illustration : William Picot
Date : : February 1995

"Emile Raynaud - sample tape of animation for the praxinoscope"

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Imagined for the celebration of centenaire of the cinema, this project takes as a starting point the process of animation invented by M. 'Emile Reynaud' in 1883: 'the Praxinoscope' . The witnesses discover the guiding principles of animation while evolving inside a ring of images 40 m in diameter.

Details

The system of projection of images is carried out thanks to a cylinder of mirror 6 m in diameter made up of 24 facets. Around this cylinder, are laid out 12 projectors of the type PIGI 4500 W, each projector is equipped with a film system in run (two films per projector) . The projector light the facets of mirror which return the image towards the screens. The screens form a ring 40 m in diameter in periphery of the unit and are twelve. The rotation of the cylinder of mirror, associate with the advance of films in each projector, makes it possible to obtain in each screens an animation with 12 images a second. The projectors and the central cylinder are installed on a link accessible to the public. Each spectactor who can visualize the image on the screens and at the same time include/understand the principle of projection and animation.

Thanks to the multiple combinations of the process of projection of images, this device makes it possible to explore several programs of images:

- different fixed Images in each screen
- Images in run in the screens
- panoramic Images 360 degrees
- Animated Images (12 ims / dry)