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Animation before the screen.

A modern replica of a Victorian zoetrope with viewing slits around its rotating drum.

A sequence of drawings comes alive inside a turning cylinder. Explore how carefully timed glimpses can make still images appear to move.

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Zoetrope.jpg

Andrew Dunn (Solipsist) / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Creator: Andrew Dunn (Solipsist)

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Resized to a maximum of 640 pixels and converted to WebP; transparent backgrounds composited on white where needed; composition preserved. Resized and converted to WebP for display. Display frames may crop the image; the full image remains available in Image credit.

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