cardboard city - Zoetrope

I cannot find any footage of my zoetrope in action, although I do have some photos. The basic premise of my zoetrope was to create an animation that occurred when it was spun by placing a string of pictures on a long piece of paper inside. I drew someone being shot and it worked quite well in the final outcome.

The Zoetrope is an an animated vintage toy that was originally developed in 1830 s. The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell improved Horner’s original design in 1868 by introducing concave lenses to the slits, eliminating distortion. Although patents for Zoetrope-like devices were registered in numerous countries from 1867, William F. Lincoln actually patented the name Zoetrope, in 1887, in the United States. In England, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company sold a number of Wheel of Life or Zoetrope models.