Vine videos are a relatively new phenomenon but the idea of making short moving pictures dates back as far as the early 19th century. In 1829, a Belgian physicist invented the phenakistoscope, or ...

Looking for a clever way to build a Phenakistoscope? Maybe you’re more familiar with its other names; Fantoscope, Phantasmascope, or perhaps its close cousin the Zoetrope? If you’re still scratching ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Joseph Plateau's 218th birthday, but who was he and why is he famous? Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian scientist known for inventing the phénakistoscope.

Here, two large circles are rotated at different speeds in front of a lantern which projects an image onto a distant wall or screen. One circle is made of wood, and holds four glass lenses, evenly ...

Phenakistoscope disc, Fores (publisher), Moving Panorama, England, 1833. Richard Balzer’s love affair began about 40 years ago, when he saw his first magic lantern — an early image projector invented ...

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau is known for his discovery of Phenakistoscope. It was a device that gave birth to the cinema with moving images. Google remembered Joseph Antoine with a doodle ...

The first Irish Animation Awards will take place tomorrow night in Dingle, Co Kerry, with nominees from familiar production companies such as Brown Bag Films, Kite Entertainment, Geronimo Productions, ...