The attention to detail here makes this zoetrope look like it’s actually from the animated movie. Each of Catbus’ many legs moves in perfect time, racing across the surface of the zoetrope. The real ...

Before there was video, animation (i.e. moving images or at least the illusion of moving images) was possible, thanks to devices called zoetropes. This video of a LEGO Star Wars zoetrope explains the ...

EXCLUSIVE: American Zoetrope has acquired screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, with Sofia Coppola set to adapt it with Andrew Durham. She will produce with Roman Coppola.

An optical illusion popular in the 19th century could make trips on the Hyperloop appear to take place in a transparent tube. Regularly spaced, narrow windows wouldn’t offer much of a view ...

Your crowded train leaves the station and rumbles through the darkness, wheels screeching against a curve. It's just another morning commute. But then light and color rush in from outside from one of ...

A zoetrope is a charming piece of Victoriana, a device that gives the sensation of a moving image by exposing its successive frames through slits in a rotating drum. [Brian Corteil] however is not ...

NEW YORK– Myriad Pictures is near a deal to take over the majority of the financing and foreign sales of Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Pictures’ 10-pic slate from German shingle VCL. For each pic, ...

Long before we had Disney animators and film projectors, we relied on a relatively simple invention called a zoetrope. It’s essentially a flipbook on a wheel. Countless frames spin round and round, ...