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The thaumatrope The thaumatrope was invented in the 1820s. It became a popular children’s toy. It is very simple to make. You need a piece of card and two pieces of string. Draw a picture on one side of the card, and draw a different picture on the other side of the card, upside down. Attach the string to the card, and spin the card fast. Your two pictures will join together to make one picture. For example, you can draw a bowl on one side of the card, and some fruit on the other side of the card. When you spin the card, it looks like the fruit is in the bowl!

The phenakistoscope The phenakistoscope was invented in the 1830s. It is made of a circle of card with a stick or a pin through the middle. There are slots around the outside of the circle, and pictures near the middle. The back of the circle must be painted black. You hold up the phenakistoscope with the pictures facing a mirror, and spin it around like a wheel. When you look through the slots, you see a moving picture.

The zoetrope The zoetrope first appeared in Europe in the 1830s. It is similar to the phenakistoscope, but you don’t need a mirror. It is made of a cylinder, not a circle. There are slots around the top of the cylinder, and pictures under the slots. The outside of the cylinder must be painted black. When you spin the cylinder around and look through the slots, you see a moving picture.

The flip book Flip books are simple and fun to make. You need lots of small pieces of paper. Draw a picture on each piece of paper, then staple the pieces of paper together at one side to make a book. Each picture must be slightly different from the picture before it. When you flip the pages of the book, you see a moving picture.

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Animation is everywhere! We see animated pictures on television, in films, on video games, and on computers. In the early 19th century, these things didn’t exist. But there were some simple machines that could show moving pictures. Read about some of them here.

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1 You need string to make a thaumatrope.

2 A phenakistoscope is made of lots of pieces of paper.

3 You need a mirror to use a phenakistoscope.

4 The outside of a zoetrope must be painted white.

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zoetrope, you see a moving ___

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circle of ___.

5 A ___ is made of a cylinder.

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