zoogyroscopen.
/ˌzuː(ə)ˈdʒʌɪrəskəʊp/, /ˌzəʊəˈdʒʌɪrəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˌzu(ə)ˈdʒaɪrəˌskoʊp/, /ˌzoʊəˈdʒaɪrəˌskoʊp/ Now historical.
A modified form of zoetrope used to project a series of photographic images of animals or other subjects in order to display their movement; cf. zoopraxiscope n.
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graphoscope1879
zoogyroscope1880
zoopraxinoscope1889
heliochromoscope1892
photochromoscope1893
kromskop1897
viewer1934
slide viewer1960
1880 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 3 May 4/5 The various movements of horses, dogs, oxen, deer, etc.: and of men running, leaping, wrestling, turning somersaults, etc. will be exhibited by means of the oxyhydrogen light, and the Zoogyroscope, in apparent actual motion, on the screen.
1975 Calif. Hist. Q. 54 125 Zoogyroscope images were attained by means of sequential transparent images placed around the rim of rotating glass disks and projected rapidly in succession onto a screen, reconstituting living movement.
1999 New Scientist 23 Oct. 42/1 At the turn of the 19th century, cinema emerged from a host of wannabe technologies, including the zoogyroscope, electro-tachyscope, biophantascope and vitamotograph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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