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What is a zoetrope?

What is a zoetrope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.
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He built a primitive zoetrope at the age of 12, which played a minute-long cartoon.
In 1834 William George Horner invented the zoetrope, a rotating drum lined by a band of pictures that could be changed.
A favorite assignment was designing a giant zoetrope, which projects images through slits in a revolving wheel, for a toy store.
The green blur of the commuter train as it speeds in the night draws a streak of light like a zoetrope, one of the many visual surprises.
With the discovery of instantaneous photography, a new application of the principle of the zoetrope was found.
Submedia Advertising, which developed the technology based on a 19th century toy, the zoetrope, expects 7.4 million to see the ad over one month.

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