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Early Days of Animation & Cinema
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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Tagged joseph plateau, michael faraday, peter roget, phenakistiscope, simon stampfer, thaumatrope
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