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 ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Paper disc with a hole in the center, 8 rectangular perforations evenly spaced along perimeter for viewing. In the outermost ring, several still images show a dancing man ...