“Seeing the Brick”

The phrase I decided to choose was “Animation prehistory begins with a simple device named Thaumatrope”. I decided to start off with this phrase because it shows people that animation without cameras or computers have been created long before we became tech savvy. It started with simple things like the Thaumatrope in which we used for entertainment in the past. This device was used to make a single image by combining  two or more images into one. This was down by twisting the strings really fast to form the images together. Today some people still use this device for such things as in for their children o play with. Sometimes people still buy these items because even thought they are outdated they still are very likable and in a way very mysterious. Parents tend to buy this item for their children as a way to show them how images used to be shown. This particularly stood out to me because I find it so fascinating how we all usually reflect back on creating things on a computer or camera, but this reminded me how things were done without these items that we used before certain inventions were made to make it easier now. This device I believe in a way opened up your minds by using different images and now putting them into one as for example in Animation videos. Overall this device when  reflected back on in some old fashion way changed the way we do things now in the present. Such as opening up peoples minds to creating easier tactics to now do this method in this era we now live in with our new technology making it possible.

 

 

 

 

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