Praxinoscope
The Praxinoscope was a animation device, the successor of the Zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Emile Reynaud. Like the Zoetrope it was a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The Praxinoscope improved the Zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the Zoetrope offered.
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