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"What we describe as animated photography is not animation at all. All that happens is that a long string of snap-shot photographs..are passed at rapid speed before the eye." - F. A. Talbot ''Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked'' 1912
"What we describe as animated photography is not animation at all. All that happens is that a long string of snap-shot photographs..are passed at rapid speed before the eye." - F. A. Talbot ''Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked'' 1912
   
   
'''Animation''' is the use of motion picture media to create the illusion of motion. While a conventional motion picture records objects in motion, an animated picture records still objects. The animated film may record thousands of individual drawings or it may record a single object, which is moved between frames.  The art of animation predates cinema, having its beginnings with devices such as the zoetrope.
'''Animation''' is the use of motion picture media to create the illusion of motion. While a conventional motion picture records objects in motion, an animated picture records still objects. The animated film may record thousands of individual drawings or it may record a single object, which is moved between frames.  The art of animation predates cinema, having its beginnings with devices such as the zoetrope.[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]]

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"What we describe as animated photography is not animation at all. All that happens is that a long string of snap-shot photographs..are passed at rapid speed before the eye." - F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked 1912

Animation is the use of motion picture media to create the illusion of motion. While a conventional motion picture records objects in motion, an animated picture records still objects. The animated film may record thousands of individual drawings or it may record a single object, which is moved between frames. The art of animation predates cinema, having its beginnings with devices such as the zoetrope.