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  • noun Plural form of zoetrope.

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Examples

  • Seder's been working on Lifetiles for more than 20 years, inspired by toys from the 1850s called zoetropes and an active imagination as a youngster.

    CNN.com 2009

  • This year, I'm planning to have them use thaumatropes and zoetropes then have them make an animation with one.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Wicked Teacher of the West 2006

  • This year, I'm planning to have them use thaumatropes and zoetropes then have them make an animation with one.

    Teaching methods Wicked Teacher of the West 2006

  • Inside, Coppola's collection of vintage zoetropes and cinema memorabilia distracted us from the main wine attractions.

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • His novels and stories are often preoccupied with oddities: circuses and carnivals, sideshows, nickelodeons, weird museums, twisted suburban landscapes and their denizens, eccentrics, illusionists, magicians, and builders of automata, zoetropes and other animating and esoteric technologies.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed REVIEWED BY PATRICK LOHIER 2011

  • Kids aged 7 and older will make animation characters that will be filmed (and screened at the end of each day) and learn how to make flipbooks and zoetropes.

    The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2010

  • Kids aged 7 and older will make animation characters that will be filmed (and screened at the end of each day) and learn how to make flipbooks and zoetropes.

    The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2010

  • Kids aged 7 and older will make animation characters that will be filmed (and screened at the end of each day) and learn how to make flipbooks and zoetropes.

    The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2010

  • MK12's parched title graphics are old school Turkish Delight ad with Daniel Craig's silhouette blasting feisty crumpet off spinning zoetropes and sand dunes aplenty.

    CommanderBond.net 2009

  • This video equates two analog technologies -- the zoetrope and the record turntable -- in footage that is described as without "special effects, just good old fashioned video scratching and zoetropes."

    virtualpolitik 2009

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