Making Moving Images!
As part of our 'Lights, Camera, Action' topic, Year Six have been investigating the history of cinema. We explored two different ways in which moving images were first created, and had a go at making some ourselves.
We all made a zoetrope (1832) which showed a series of moving images, and some of us created a phenakistoscope (1834) which showed a bird in a cage.
Each of these was a piece of machinery used to create early moving images in the form of peephole cinemas. Zoetrops were small boxes that people could pay to view small movies of animals or different characters playing out scenes. Lots of these machines were more about the illusion of moving images rather than actual film.
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