Task 1A - Unit 59 Techniques & Methods of Animation

       Zoetrope

A zoetrope is a device that came out before we had cinemas. This animation device produces a display of drawings or photographs which creates an illusion so its almost like a video. When the device was first created in 1833 it had the name doedaleum. The device was created by a man called William George Horner who was a mathematician. A man named James Clerk Maxwell later went on to improve Horner’s design by introducing concave lenses to the slits so the motion of the image was not distorted. Many people from numerous countries registered to patent the name zoetrope in 1867. William F Lincoln went on to patent the name zoetrope, in 1887, in the United States. Many zoetrope devices were sold in London, England by a stereoscopic and photographic company.  

Worlds Largest Zoetrope