The Magic Drum

1996 • 0h 53m • Documentary, TV Movie

Other essential predecessors of film were those devices that created the illusion of motion by taking advantage of the persistence of vision and the stroboscopic effect, such as the thaumatrope, phenakistoscope or wheel of life, zoetrope or magic drum and praxinoscope and later on, the more sophisticated flip-books such as the kinora and mutoscope.

Director

Werner Nekes

Writers

Werner Nekes

Status

Released