Crossword-Solution: ZOETROPE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Zoetrope | n. | An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ZOETROPE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Animation toy | 1 answer |
| Old toy that's the spinning analog of a flip book (not, as it looks, a cliché about a Muppet) | 1 answer |
| Old-fashioned image projector | 1 answer |
| Pre-film animation device | 1 answer |
| Spinning device giving the illusion of motion | 1 answer |
| Optical toy | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with ZOETROPE (5)
Then currant wine and ginger pops Stood handily on all the “tops;” And also, with amusement rife, A “Zoetrope, or Wheel of Life.” New volumes came across the sea From MISTER MUDIE’S libraree; _The Times_ and _Saturday Review_ Beguiled the leisure of the crew.
With the Zoetrope and similar toys rough drawings were used for depicting a few broadly outlined successive phases of movement, because in their day instantaneous photography was unknown, and in addition there were certain crudities of construction that seriously interfered with the illumination of the pictures, rendering it necessary to make them practically as silhouettes on a very conspicuous background.
From these negatives, when developed, positive prints were made, which were later mounted on a modified form of Zoetrope and projected upon a screen.
This idea, the germ of which came from the little toy called the Zoetrope and the work of Muybridge, Marey, and others, has now been accomplished, so that every change of facial expression can be recorded and reproduced life-size.
Then I took a small wheel, about the size of an oyster-barrel--the monks had dozens of them--and pasted the photographs inside in successive order, like what is called a zoetrope, or wheel of life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1975–2018).