Animation
The Richard Balzer Collection
gregory barsamian
scott blake (flipbooks and thaumatropes)
http://www.barcodeart.com/store/collectible/index.html
bill brand (linear zoetrope - subway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IwVD5efXz0
Paul Burns’s The History of the Discovery of Cinematography
http://www.precinemahistory.net/
Mat Collishaw (stroboscopes)
https://matcollishaw.com/works/the-centrifugal-soul/
Early Visual Media
Website explaining and displaying intriguing and forgotten early vintage visual media and their history.
George Eastman House Pre-Cinema Tech Collection
http://www.geh.org/fm/precin/htmlsrc/precine_sld00001.html
Julia Featheringill’s website
http://www.uncertainty-principle.com/julia/
Flipbook.info
http://www.flipbook.info/index_en.php
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr.’s Photographic Collections of Optical Recreations, Kenyon College
Collection includes images and descriptions of kaleidoscopes, moiré patterns, phantascopes, phenikistiscopes, praxinoscopes, stereoscopic effects, thaumatropes, and zoetropes.
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Titlepage/Optical_Recreations.html
Laura Hayes and John Howard Exhibit of Optical Toys, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/opticaltoys.htm
Toshio Iwai at Animation World network
https://www.awn.com/animationworld/pre-cinema-toys-inspire-multimedia-artist-toshio-iwai
Jonathan Jones, "Magic In Motion: the Victorian Toys Spinning Back to Life as GIFs," The Guardian, November 4, 2015
jim le fevre
The Magic Lantern Society, UK
http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/
Museo del Precinema, Collection Minici Zotti
http://www.minicizotti.it/?lang=en
Cinematography Collection at the National Media Museum, UK
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Collections/Collection_Department.asp?DeptID=2
Sarabande Press
Centennial Salute to Cinema Exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
https://americanhistory.si.edu/cinema/