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MOTION
from Static Motion
The Flipbook
A flipbook is another example of a sequence image. The importance of this experiment is that it captured what the naked eye couldn’t. It is considered a major breakthrough in the fields of art and photography. All the paintings with galloping horses before this time were based on speculation. There is a visible shift seen in the position of the horse legs in paintings done before and after this experiment.
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The interesting thing about the series is that it can only be enjoyed if seen in motion like in a flipbook or in a zoopraxiscope. Individually, the galloping horse images do not make so much sense but when they are viewed in succession, it creates an animation that explains the concept of animal locomotion.
The Filoscope
An upgrade to the traditional flipbook was a Filoscope created by Henry W Short in 1897. It was a small hand-held flipbook that had a lever to flip pictures to create an illusion of movement.7 Each filoscope housed almost a hundred frames of one sequence to produce seamless short animations.
