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"Thaumatropes are the first of many optical instruments developed to study persistence of vision. They typically consist of a cardboard disc with thread attached on the left and right sides. On each side of a round piece of card stock is a picture, painting or illustration. The images are designed and placed so that when the disc is spun by rolling the threads back and forth between the fingers and thumbs. The faster the disc is spun back and forth, the more the two pictures appear as one!"

1875 at Palo Alto, California, Le Prince saw a series of photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge, and he was attracted to the idea of producing a series of photographs motion pictures.

The idea of the theater began in 1959 during a series of conversations among Guthrie and two colleagues who were disenchanted with Broadway.