Although film and animation have come quite a long way, there’s still something magical about that grandaddy of them all, the zoetrope. Thanks to persistence of vision, our eyes are fooled into seeing ...

This fascinating project manages to be both something new and something old done in a new way. Artist [Akinori Goto] has used 3D printing to create a sort of frameless zoetrope. It consists of a short ...

With the vinyl revival upon us, artists are enhancing new albums with old tricks. A handful of albums, including releases from Dua Lipa, Gorillaz, Olivia Rodrigo and Glass Animals, plus a new release ...

Half-Asleep Chris explains how a simple zoetrope uses an optical illusion to make still images appear to move.

The attention to detail here makes this zoetrope look like it's actually from the animated movie. Each of Catbus' many legs moves in perfect time, racing across the surface of the zoetrope. The real ...

The site first launched in 1997. Francis Ford Coppola, noted vintner and Academy Award–winning filmmaker, today announced the relaunch of his Zoetrope.com website. Newly redesigned with a new section ...

An executive producer at a small L.A. animation studio went under the needle earlier this year to transform into a living zoetrope. The precursor to early film creates the illusion of motion by lining ...

Francis Ford Coppola today announced the relaunch of the Family Coppola’s Zoetrope.com site, which has become a virtual studio for the writing community. The redesign will include a showcase for short ...

EXCLUSIVE: American Zoetrope has acquired screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, with Sofia Coppola set to adapt it with Andrew Durham. She will produce with Roman Coppola.

If there had been no Zoetrope, the film studio founded by Francis Coppola and George Lucas in San Francisco in 1969, there would be no Star Wars, argues John Patterson In April 1979, Francis Ford ...