Magic Lantern
this is the invention of photography used to make slide shows.

thaumatrope 1824
this is a part of card with a picture on each side of it with two bits of string on each end of it. its twirled to make the picture it to one.

zoetrope 1834
this is a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides.

praxinoscope 1877
this is just an improvment of the zoetrope, by replacing the slits with an inner circle of mirrors.

flip book 1886
flip book is a series of similer pictures on one part of paper to another that when you flip the paper really fast from one page to another an animation appears.

stop motion
stop motion is just frame by frame, its made to look realistic by making objects move.