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