Early Animation

zoetrope was invented in 1834 by a man named William George Horner it was a very early form of motion picture projector containing a drum with a set of still images put into a circular motion in order to create an illusion of motion. Zoetrope is still used in modern day with it been seen to help create animated GIFs. Zoetrope tricks the brain into believing that what it is showing is actually in motion as a pose to it being still images.

this is an example of an early motion picture device which is known as kenetiscope it was invented by Thomas Edison. The film reel is passed through a lens and an electric light bulb at a fast pace whilst the person viewing could look through the peephole to view it. The first ever Kenetiscope to be copyrighted by the U.S was Fred Ott's Sneeze and lasted 5 seconds 

Mutoscope was an early motion picture device that was discovered by Winsor Mccay and was later patented by Herman Casler on 21st November 1894. Similar to the kenetiscope this is only sanctioned to one viewer at a time due to it not being projected onto a screen. rather than being put into a booklet the cards were attached to a reel  that usually held around 850 cards which flicked through and produced around a minute worth of content.Phenakistoscope was an early animation  device developed by Joseph plateau and Simon Stampfer in December 1832 that used the persistence  of vision to create an illusion of their being motion. Phenakistoscope  used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle.