1. Shadow play
As early as 10000 BC shadow dancing and puppetry have been used as art forms. This is projection and the illusion of movement, but not a series of pictures, so not a motion picture.
2. Zoetrope
Zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.
3. Praxinoscope
The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors,[1] placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered.
Zoetrope invented by Edward. It may bridge to the Praxinoscope can be considered the first projected motion picture and function by placing a sequence of images on the disk and spinning it with a cover to display one image at one time in rapid succession this frame by frame motion was the beginning of the film industry shortly.
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