History of Animation

The thaumatrope was a popular form of animation in the victorian times, it simply consists of two pieces of paper or card with two different pictures either side, so that when it is spun using a piece of string like shown in the video above, along with the theory of 'Persistence of Vision' it makes the images combine. This is because 'Persistence of Vision' states that our eyes capture and retain images for 0.04 seconds. An example of a thaumatrope is the flowers in a vase, or the most popular, a bird in a cage.