The Phenakistoscope is a cardboard disk pierced around its circumference with a number of small openings and painted on one side with figures. When you spin the disk in front of a mirror while looking through the openings, the reflected figures, instead of becoming blurred as they would if you looked at the spinning circle in any other way, seem to stop rotating and perform movements.
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The phenakistoscopes you see on this page were made by Amelie Collins.
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