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30,000 BCE
30,000
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Period: 30,000 BCE to 30,000 BCE
30,000
prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux france depicated animals in multiple postions to give the illusion of motion as light from torches flickered -
2000 BCE
2000
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Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE
2000BC
Ancient Egyptains painted or carved scenes on to surfaces these showed characters in slighty altered positions suggesting movement -
1659
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Period: to
1659
Christiaan Huygens begins to develop the magic lantern which projects images from glass slides -
1700
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Period: to
1700
Descriptions of mechanical slides for the magic lantern begin. These involved extra pieces of glass that could be moved by hand -
1824
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Period: to
1824
John Ayrton Paris invents the thaumataope Based on theory of persistence of vision. The theory has now been rejected -
1832
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Period: to
1832
joseph Plateue develops the Phenakistocs ope, which is a series of evenly spaced images,painted on to a rotating disc -
1899
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Period: to
1899
Arthur melbourne cooper makes matches al appeal -
1925
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Period: to
1925
Animator Williams O brien works on the lost world the film mixed stop-motion animation with live action