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What (who) is zoetrope - definition
Zoetrope
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PRE-CINEMA ANIMATION DEVICE
Zoëtrope; Zootrope; 3D zoetrope
A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. It was basically a cylindrical variation of the phénakisticope, suggested almost immediately after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833.
zoetrope
PRE-CINEMA ANIMATION DEVICE
Zoëtrope; Zootrope; 3D zoetrope
['z???tr??p]
¦ noun a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion.
Origin
C19: formed irregularly from Gk zoe 'life' + -tropos 'turning'.
Zoetrope
PRE-CINEMA ANIMATION DEVICE
Zoëtrope; Zootrope; 3D zoetrope
·noun An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.
Examples of use of zoetrope
1. "Now Pacino is very rich, maybe because he never spends any money; he just puts it in his mattress." Referring to the influence of his own studio, American Zoetrope, he went on: "De Niro was deeply inspired by Zoetrope and created an empire and is wealthy and powerful.
2. Back when everyone thought rock‘n‘roll would entertain as many generations as the zoetrope, it was access all areas – and so we got Don‘t Look Back, Gimme Shelter and the turgid but painfully irresistible Let It Be.