zeotrope

A Zeotrope is one of the first ever equipment used to create animations. This is how the Zeotrope Works

You insert the zeotrope strip which has images that tells a story and that includes a series of frames...
Then you spin the zeotrope and stair through the lines made on them, because there are gaps between the line its almost like were blinking and a new frame comes up. Reasons why things work like that is because the Retina :which is based at the back of our eyes , remembers the last image and then we end up seeing the next frame.  

The advantages of a zeotrope is that it is really simple to use and it also animates on the other hand it has a circular narrative which limits the story.the Drum itself also limits amount of frames you can include in it..