Zoetrop strip: 'Leap Frog'
- PART OF:
- Zoetrope, with 38 strips and 6 discs
- Made:
- circa 1868 in London
Zoetrope strip entitled 'Leap Frog', Clarke's Wheel of Life No. 2 showing a duck leapfrogging over a fish. Published by H G Clarke and Co, Garrick Street, Covent Garden, London, c. 1868.
A zoetrope strip is a strip of paper with a sequence of printed drawings representing a scene in motion which sits inside a the drum of a zoetrope. When the drum is rotated, the images provide a loop of continuous motion when viewed through the slits in the side.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Object Number:
- 1975-325/8
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- type:
- optical toy