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SUMMARY:Lesson 4: Phenakistoscopes
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DESCRIPTION: This is an optional activity that can be added on after making flipbooks or skipped entirely if time is limited.
Download the Phenakistoscope template. (Below)

Explain that a phenakistoscope is made by making tabs between regular cutouts along the outside of a circle to create frames, and it works by giving the illusion of motion from rapidly flashing the images in a sequence before your eyes.

Phenakistoscopes were invented in Belgium in 1832 and are a very early form of animation. Phenakistoscopes actually preceded flip books.
Phenakistoscopes work best when animating a cyclical activity –such as a horse galloping or a child jumping rope– rather than an entire story. It is important that the motion loops, meaning that it begins and ends in the same place. Good examples might be a ball bouncing, a man walking, a flower blooming and dying, etc. Share with students a prepared example to sink home this idea of looping action.
Encourage students to think of...

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