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-	The '''phenakistoscope''' (also spelled '''phenakistiscope''') was an early [[animation]] device, the predecessor to the [[zoetrope]]. It was invented in [[1831]] simultaneously by the [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[Joseph Plateau]] and the [[Austria]]n [[Simon von Stampfer]].	+
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-	One variant of the phenakistoscope was a spinning disc mounted vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to [[Film frame|frames]] of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images with the appearance of a [[motion picture]] (see also [[persistence of vision]]). Another variant had two discs, one with slits and one with pictures; this was slightly more unwieldy but needed no mirror. Unlike the zoetrope and its successors, the phenakistoscope could only practically be used by one person at a time.	+
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-	The word "phenakistoscope" comes from [[Greek language|Greek]] roots meaning "deceiving viewer".	+
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-	The Special Honorary Joseph Plateau Award, a replica of Plateau's original phenakisticope, is presented every year to a special guest of the [[Flanders International Film Festival]] whose achievements have earned a special and distinct place in the history of international film making.	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	* [[Electrotachyscope]]	+
-	* [[Episcotister]]	+
-	* [[Flip book]]	+
-	* [[Praxinoscope]]	+
-	* [[Strobe light]]	+
-	* [[Tachometer]]	+
-	* [[Thaumatrope]]	+
-	* [[Zoetrope]]	+
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