Toupie Fantoches

Manufacturer	Émile Reynaud
Name	Toupie Fantoches
Place	París (France)
Date	1879
Register	1108

Another of the optical toys derived from Émile Reynaud's praxinoscope is this one, which he called toupie pantoches, and which he patented in 1879. This is a very simple device; it is shaped like a pyramid with mirrors on all four sides and a handle at the bottom. The strips with the images are replaced by cardboard disks, where there are four drawings that break down a movement. This disk was placed upside down on top of the pyramid, which was rotated. The moving image was observed through the mirrors. The toupie fantoches is a very rare object; only two original copies are known in the world, one of which is the one in the Museum of Cinema. Reynaud only published a series of ten picture discs for the toupie pantoches.

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