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Persistence of vision.

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.

..........It consists of a cylinder with images from a set of sequenced drawings.

.....As the cylinder spins the user looks and sees a rapid succession of images producing an illusion of motion.

..........The earliest projected moving images were displayed by using a 'magic lantern' zoetrope.

.....It was this principle of the ' Persistence of vision ' that was the forerunner to the earliest Television pictures.

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