an old fashioned toy consisting of a cylinder with pictures inside. When you rotate the cylinder and look through slits at the inside, the pictures seem move.The zoetrope is one of several animation t [..]

"optical instrument which exhibits pictures as if alive and in action," 1867, literally "wheel of life," from Greek zoe "life" (see zoo-) + trope "turn" (see tr [..]

19th century motion-picture device, invented by William George Homer, in which a strip of paper with a changing sequence of images is placed in the bottom of a circular drum. The drum has slots cut at [..]

is an early device for creating illusion of continuous motion. A sequence of still pictures was viewed so quickly through slits in a rotating drum, that the images appeared to merge.

Device that creates an illusion of movement due to the quick rotation of still images. The zoetrope was invented by British mathematician William Horner (1786 – 1837) in 1834.

An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions a [..]