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