Early animation devices

Early animation devices - Stop Motion Animation

ZoeTrope - 

A zoetrope is known as one the first moving image animation made. Being a film-animation device that produces a sequence of small drawings or photographs the zoetrope is made to give the illusion that the drawings are moving when really they are not. 

Thaumatrope - 

Popular in the early 19th century the Thaumatrope was and still is designed to give the illusion that the bird is really in the metal cage.

With the Thaumatrope the aim is too hold onto the strings on either side and move it forward and backwards until it looks like the bird is in the cage.

Phenakistoscope - 

The Phenakistoscope was designed by the use of motion principles to create one illusion which is motion.

Using the phenakistoscope you start off by using two disks which is normally mounted on the same axis. With the first disc having slots around the edges and the seconds containing pictures or drawings, when viewed in a mirror, looking through the first disc the pictures will eventually look like its moving.   

Kinetoscope -

Designed mainly for films. The Kinetoscope was a very early motion picture animation device. Also the Kinetoscope is only a one person view box where they would look through a small whole. 

Mutoscope -
Also an early motion picture device the Mutoscope is very much similar then the Kinetoscope.