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The Praxinoscope Theatre from "Popular Scientific Recreations" by Gaston Tissandier (ca. 1890).

The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. Here is an example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_UJAafRMs

 

The animation studio Pixar created one of the finest examples of a zoetrope, which was on display at Disney parks. A large group of three-dimensional sculptures seem to come alive.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5khDGKGv088

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Uploaded on April 3, 2015
Taken on March 30, 2015