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