zoetrope
Sign in to savethumb|A replica of a Victorian zoetrope
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27 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Technology
- Earlier rotating devices with images
- Invention
- Simon Stampfer (1833)
- William Horner (1834)
- Experimental photographic sequence viewers (1850s–1860s)
- William Ensign Lincoln & Milton Bradley's Zoetrope (1865–1867)
- James Clerk Maxwell's improved zoetrope
- Linear zoetropes
- Subway zoetropes
- Japan
- United States
- Other places
- 3D zoetropes
- Ghibli
- ''Toy Story''
- ''All Things Fall''
- Peter Hudson
- Other examples
- Giant zoetropes
- Successors
- Contemporary media uses
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A replica of a Victorian zoetrope
A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope, an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833. The definitive version of the zoetrope, with replaceable film picture film strips, was introduced as a toy by Milton Bradley in 1866 and became very successful.