Zoetrope
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A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindric
A replica of a Victorian zoetrope
Device described in John Bate's The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1635)
Four phase animation device as depicted in Hopwood's Living Pictures (1899)
Czermak's 1855 Stereophoroskop
House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson, Peter Gallagher, and C
Zoetrope
…Blue Man Group uses a zoetrope at their shows in Las Vegas and in the Sharp Aquos Theater in Universal Studios (in Orlando, Florida). The 1999 film House on Haunted Hill uses a man-sized zoetrope chamber as a twisted horror theme. In 2007, an image of a zoetrope was unveiled as one of BBC Two's new idents: a futuristic…
Theatrical release poster
Though uncredited, director William Malone co-wrote the screenplay with Dick Beebe
The surrealist effects featured in the film's climax were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and Rorschach inkblots
Geoffrey Rush Cannes 2011