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Phenakistoscopes

Scope note

Optical toys that create moving images, consisting normally of disks with a series of sequential drawings which are viewed through a mirror through slits in the disks, one for each image, while the disks are spun.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000212348

Broader Terms used

optical toys

Term used for

phenikistiscopes

Equivalent Terms used

phenakistoscope

Created

13yrs ago

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