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- noun Plural form of
zoetrope .
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Examples
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Seder's been working on Lifetiles for more than 20 years, inspired by toys from the 1850s called zoetropes and an active imagination as a youngster.
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This year, I'm planning to have them use thaumatropes and zoetropes then have them make an animation with one.
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This year, I'm planning to have them use thaumatropes and zoetropes then have them make an animation with one.
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Inside, Coppola's collection of vintage zoetropes and cinema memorabilia distracted us from the main wine attractions.
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His novels and stories are often preoccupied with oddities: circuses and carnivals, sideshows, nickelodeons, weird museums, twisted suburban landscapes and their denizens, eccentrics, illusionists, magicians, and builders of automata, zoetropes and other animating and esoteric technologies.
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Kids aged 7 and older will make animation characters that will be filmed (and screened at the end of each day) and learn how to make flipbooks and zoetropes.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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Kids aged 7 and older will make animation characters that will be filmed (and screened at the end of each day) and learn how to make flipbooks and zoetropes.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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Kids aged 7 and older will make animation characters that will be filmed (and screened at the end of each day) and learn how to make flipbooks and zoetropes.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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MK12's parched title graphics are old school Turkish Delight ad with Daniel Craig's silhouette blasting feisty crumpet off spinning zoetropes and sand dunes aplenty.
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This video equates two analog technologies -- the zoetrope and the record turntable -- in footage that is described as without "special effects, just good old fashioned video scratching and zoetropes."
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