r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/jgzogaib • 1d ago

Eadweard Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope disc "A Couple Waltzing" (No. 35), published in 1893.

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u/ButteredNun 1d ago

She hates him

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u/Artistic-Landscape45 1d ago

Literally came to comment why is her arm dead 😭😭

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u/Into-the-stream 15h ago

It looks like they used a dummy or corpse for the female model and he’s just dragging her around. 

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u/Nani_700 22h ago

It's Victorian times. She would have been considering a dirty whore if she didn't frown

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u/Graytis 23h ago

I love the look into the old technology. It's always fascinating to get a glimpse into the evolution of our stuff.

Through today's lens, though, this looks like it should have been titled "Man Twirls Corpse."

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u/invisiblezipper 1h ago

There's a guy who does this with markers on a spinning white board https://youtube.com/shorts/8TP4l6xwH6E?si=bIQZp5Sq5ez3iN_G