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By Katie and Esme
JOSEPH PLATEAU
Overview
• Belgian Physicist • His father was an artistic man and so his father
wanted him to follow this.• Inspiration from Michael Faraday and Peter Mark
• He invented the Phenakistoscope• Plateau proved the theory of persistence of vision in
1829• He was a professor at the University of Ghent in 1844
Plateau Impact On Future Animators
• After 2 years William George Horner invented the zoetrope which he based his idea on joseph plateau
and added 2 improvements to it.• Plateau started of the idea of animation film.
An Example of a Phenakistoscope
1829 Joseph Plateau1831 William
Horner1872 Edward Muybridge Edison
1889 Emily Reynard
1895 Lumiere Brothers
1925 Willis O’Brien
1928 George Pal
1949 Ray Harryhausen
1950 Jan Svankmajer
Faraday quote about Plateau…
“… Although bodily Plateau reminded plunged in the darkness of a sad profound night, the
perspicacity of his mind, having become more intensive than ever, was to lead to the most
brilliant discoveries and to conquer for Belgium science an immortal glory”
ReferencesWikipedia; 13th March 13; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plateau
Plateau Biography; Aug 06; www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Plateau.html
Early Visual Media; users.telent.be/thomasweynants/plateau-intro.html
www.mhsgent.ugent.be/eng-plat1.html