Pioneers
One of the first people to give the illusion of movement through stop motion was a man named William George Horner. He was Born in Britain in 1786 and became a mathematician in his later years. He then who went on to own his own school at 27 years old. Then in 1834 he created the ‘Zoetrope’. It was a cylinder toy with a series of pictures inside. As you can see there were slits on the outside of the wheel which is where you would look through. The slits were made so the image wouldn’t blur when it was spun. This meant you could only see the series of images through the short slits. It almost acts like a shutter by freezing the image. The human eye could see the illusion of the images moving due to the persistence of vision. This worked because the human eye has the illusion of an after image still continuing due to the optics of the eye having the ability to persist for a 1/16 of a second after the image is removed. So normally every 12 frames one picture in our head will be shown.