A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope, an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833. The definitive version of the zoetrope, with replaceable film picture film strips, was introduced as a toy by Milton Bradley in 1866 and became very successful.
A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive...
American Zoetrope (also known as Omni Zoetrope from 1977 to 1980 and Zoetrope Studios from 1980 until 1990) is a privately run American film production...
directors a chance. He decided to name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogens Scot-Hansen, founder of a studio called...
Zoetrope Interactive is an independent game developer located in Istanbul, Turkey. One of the notable products they have developed is Darkness Within 2:...
Stanton. Set entirely in Las Vegas and made independently by Coppola's own Zoetrope Studios, the film was a critical and commercial failure. The story begins...
California in 1967, Lucas moved to San Francisco and co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138...
animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed...
was a Powell's bestseller. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, Gulf Coast, and many other literary magazines. She is married...
Eleanor Coppola. Coppola serves as president of film company American Zoetrope. He is also the founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial...
metal drummer from Chicago, Illinois. From 1976 until 1988, he drummed for Zoetrope, for whom he also served as vocalist and songwriter. After recording two...
American Graffiti and Star Wars, and with whom Coppola had founded American Zoetrope in 1969. Scott Glenn as Captain Richard M. Colby, previously assigned Willard's...
allowed a much clearer view of the moving image compared to the zoetrope, since the zoetrope's images were actually mostly obscured by the spaces in between...
1981, he met film director Francis Ford Coppola through an associate from Zoetrope Studios, Coppola's production company. Before shooting The Outsiders (1983)...
Marshall, first on a double date, and later at Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope company. The company hired them as comedy writers, because "they wanted...
Coppola film One from the Heart. At the time, Brennan worked at the American Zoetrope studio as a script analyst, while Waits composed the score for One from...
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