ゾートロープ

noun

zoetrope

A pre-cinema animation device consisting of a cylinder with vertical slits and a sequence of images inside; when spun, the viewer sees a moving picture.

• 博はく物ぶつ館かんで19世せい紀きのゾートロープを見みた。

  I saw a 19th-century zoetrope at the museum.

• ゾートロープは映えい画がの先せん祖ぞの一ひとつだ。

  The zoetrope is one of the ancestors of film.