Magic tricks before the movie theater
The era of ink and scissors
Puppets, clay, and limited lines
The pixels that learned to paint
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Master of How to make drawings run away
disney The Magic Lantern
With painted glass and candle light, a skeleton began to shake Within the magic lantern lens, the first cartoon was wide awake
disney A spinning zoetrope wheel displays moving drawings inside a warm, colorful Victorian parlor.
disney Warm light streams through the spinning slits of a rotating phenakistoscope disc.
disney Arrange the frames in the correct order to discover how static drawings learned to dance.
Movie speed: To trick our brains into seeing smooth motion, animations must show at least 12 frames per second.
An early type of image projector that uses a light source to project pictures painted on glass plates onto a screen. In 1659, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens invented the device, pioneering early projected animation.
What was the zoetrope originally called when William George Horner patented it in 1834?
disney Charles-Émile Reynaud pioneered early animated projection with his Parisian Théâtre Optique
What optical illusion allows the brain to merge rapidly flashing images into one continuous motion?
What did Charles-Émile Reynaud use instead of photographic film for his 1892 projections?