Fremantle Light and Sound Discovery Centre
Program details


From Magic Lantern to Movieplex
60 minutes presentation


Suitable for Science classes and Media classes.

Year 8 to Year 10


This program will cover the history of motion picture technology. It will include:
  • Persistence of vision
  • Magic lantern projector
  • Thaumotrope
  • Phenakistoscope
  • Zoetrope
  • Mutoscope
  • Kinetoscope
  • Motion picture film
  • Video images
  • and more.
As an activity students will make a Thaumotrope, and make a Zoetrope or a Phenakistoscope to keep.

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