The pre-cinematic and pre-photographic optical devices that established the illusions moving-image and still-image technology later mechanized. Belongs here: the camera obscura, the zoetrope, the praxinoscope and comparable named optical precursor devices. Does not belong here: the cameras and projectors that followed them as working cinema or photography technology, grouped under cinema and projection technology or photography and photojournalism technology.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Camera obscura, History sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Camera obscura, History section
One of the earliest known written records of a pinhole image is found in the Chinese text called Mozi, dated to the 4th century BC.
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