1832 The Phenakistoscope

1.The creation of the Phenakistoscope is a relevant part of stop frame animation because it signifies the beginning of a long line of stop frame techniques.

2.How it works; “The Phenakistoscope use a spinning disc attached vertically on a handle. Around the centre of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images with the appearance of a motion picture.”