Make your own early moving picture device

[@Timtamswithcoffee]

I remember this! I’ve build this after the show finished. I was around 7. good times... Greetings from Switzerland.

[@royksk]

A very neat simplification of the more elaborate zoetrope. Excellent.

[@CuriosityShow]

Many thanks - lots more at kzbin.info - Rob

[@royksk]

CuriosityShow Thanks Rob, already subscribed to you site. Wish I'd been able to see these when I was teaching science to special needs kids. I used lots of fun and practical methods.

[@CuriosityShow]

@@royksk Apologies, it's hard to know who is subscribed and who isn't from the comments. Thanks anyway - Rob

[@ikarikid]

It’s actually one of the earliest such devices and is called a phenakistiscope.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

Another fun project that I can quickly and easily build with the young folks that are part of my life.

[@CuriosityShow]

Yes, and you can put several 'movies' on the one disc, one under another - Rob

[@MRA_3]

Absolutely wonderful

[@CuriosityShow]

Many thanks. lots more at kzbin.info, so subscribe if you haven't yet done so - Rob

[@MRA_3]

@@CuriosityShow you're welcome Mr.Rob

[@PARALLELPEOPLEAKSHAYB]

Even though I am interested in animation I never tried this basic thing, thanks.

[@CuriosityShow]

Great pleasure - Rob

[@Zack-xz1ph]

The original GIFs

[@Suman-zp8gs]

Wow that's amazing!

[@thebeststooge]

Those always fascinated me.

[@HandyAndyTechTips]

Very informative. Talking about early moving pictures... I notice that most of the segments that you have uploaded date from the 1980s. Is there any chance that we'll get to see any of the really early stuff - possibly black and white segments from 1972 - 1974? Or have those early shows been lost / destroyed / wiped?

[@CuriosityShow]

Yes, I'm afraid so. The earliest were recorded on a kind of primitive telecine film (remember that was black and white) and sent around the country like that. Around 1985, Deane and I started asking for VHS copies to monitor before broadcast, as there had been some production slips, and some of these segments come from those, and we did eventually get the masters of other years, but nothing before about 1981. Tapes were costly, so they got re-used and, when technology changed, not everything was kept. - Rob

[@HandyAndyTechTips]

@@CuriosityShow Thanks for the reply Rob. I'm just glad that so many segments still exist - and even though I have several tertiary qualifications, I still learn a lot from your channel :-) If only I'd known about the Curiosity Show when I was in primary school...

[@CuriosityShow]

@@HandyAndyTechTips Good on you, thanks - Rob

[@RobJennings579]

@@CuriosityShow Do you have any clips, or even photos, of you with Humphrey?

[@CuriosityShow]

I have one, from 1971 or 1972, just before his attempts to upstage me earned him an unwise encounter with a van de Graaff generator! it should be in my memoir of the show to be published later this year - 'Curious Recollections' - Rob

[@musmodtos]

Why did we not have this? There is somethong rather delightful in this. I'm in the UK and we had the big budget _How2_ and the USA had _insert here_ but the _Convicts_ had this and the _Canucks_ had the equally wonderful _Acme School of Stuff_ Not fair, this is far less condescending and far more interesting that our big-budget efforts.

[@CuriosityShow]

Many thanks - lots more at kzbin.info where you can subscribe - Rob

[@musmodtos]

@@CuriosityShow thanks Rob but already a subscriber. _Ya' know_ there's a tremdous talent in engaging youth without being condescending, I always wanted to be a teacher but I'm well aware I didn't have the skills to not sound like an abject arsehole. You two managed that, no matter the years passed. Its a fine and admirable talent to convey a message for young minds without preaching. David Stringer managed it in Canuckistan, also a fine talent - so I guess you three truly showed and honest and commendable talent.

[@CuriosityShow]

Curiosity Show was on air in the UK for a while on TVAM, but I can't recall what years - probably mid seventies - Rob

[@CuriosityShow]

That is really kind of you, and I appreciate it - Rob

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

@@musmodtos Agreed. Being an American watching, and thoroughly enjoying these, i feel as though I was robbed of a great opportunity to see these in my formative years. However, even late in life, i still tell my daughters (because they have children), friends with children, and young people I know, "An education will set you free." It is programs like this that bring true freedom to the world, and spark those young intellectual fires that make positive changes to the course of humanity. Thank you, Curiosity Show.

[@raynovikpchevotszcheck5812]

@CuriosityShow, you should've also showed how to make the other first one...

[@TechsScience]

I wonder which app they used for editing those days

[@Zack-xz1ph]

PencilCAD

[@TechsScience]

@@Zack-xz1ph are you kidding?

[@Zack-xz1ph]

Yeah lol

[@raynovikpchevotszcheck5812]

@@Zack-xz1ph oh hell no

[@markusliu283]

How you got the idea to make this?

[@CuriosityShow]

Probably some toy I had when I was a kid, but i have always been interested in such things and could well have picked up the idea from somewhere else - Rob

[@spacejihadist4246]

All he wanted to do was to flap his wings and fly.