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Early Days of Animation & Cinema

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Martha

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the birth of Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, whom it credits with inventing a device that shows the earliest form of animation. That device is called a phénakistiscope. The true story of the first animation is more … Continue reading →

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