Clin d'éventail (1894)

Demenÿ shot these images with his Chronophotographe. Like other chronophotographers of his era, he initially captured sequences of images using cameras that exposed individual photographs—either on glass plates or on strips of sensitized paper or film. After the initial capture, the selected sequence of images (typically 12–24) was transferred to the circumference of a circular glass disc for use in devices like the Phonoscope. This created the illusion of continuous motion, similar to the effect of a zoetrope or Edison's Kinetoscope. This chronophotographic film, digitized and animated (at 5 fps) by the Cinémathèque française, runs for a total of 2.9 seconds but is repeated a total of six times in a continuous loop thus replicating how a viewer would view the film with a Phonoscope.