This Online Archive Collects 19th Century “GIFs” of Yore
Phenakistoscopes, praxinoscopes, and zoetropes, oh my! Richard Balzer, a 69-year-old New York native, has cultivated a remarkable online museum of early animations and optical toys of the 18th and 19th centuries. According to the Verge, the process of transforming a collection of physical ephemera into an online archive was arduous: Balzer worked with an LA…
