Educational Kit: Animation Magic

Primary school (ages 8 - 10)

You will discover a series of magical toys that will help you understand and experience the movement of images.

In this box, you will find a series of slightly unusual yet very simple devices that allow you to understand and experience the first sequences of animated drawings.

Can I make a bird appear inside a cage if I draw them separately? What are the holes in the zoetrope for? Why do praxinoscope strips have black spaces? Can I see the movement of the phenakistoscope without a mirror? How does the Cine NIC work?

We can explore all these questions by playing with the inventions that made cinema possible! In fact, these optical toys will help us understand and experience the movement of images, unveiling the history of audiovisual spectacles.

Objectives

- Identify temporal concepts: past, present, and future.
- Directly observe facts and phenomena.
- Understand the behavior of light.
- Create and narrate short invented stories following a storyline.
- Relate text and image.
- Sequence images.
- Experiment with the principle of retinal persistence.
- Develop audiovisual production projects in groups.

Contents of the Kit

1 zoetrope, 1 praxinoscope, 1 phenakistoscope, 1 Cine NIC, 3 zoetrope strips, 4 praxinoscope strips, 2 Cine NIC films, 2 phenakistoscope discs, 4 flipbooks, 5 thaumatropes, 1 teaching guide, a USB drive with a PowerPoint containing supporting images for classroom work, and templates for creating strips for each device.

Duration

2 hours.

Price

Autonomous Kit: Free of charge. The borrowing school is responsible for transportation costs.

With an Educator: 140 EUR per group (maximum of 26 students) plus the educator’s travel expenses to the school.

Notes

Self-Use Kit: The teaching guide provides teachers with the necessary resources to work and experiment with children in the classroom. Loans are available for a maximum of 3 weeks, depending on availability.

Kit with an Educator: The activity requires a classroom that can be darkened, a computer, a projector, and an electrical connection.

Activity Author

Museum of Cinema in collaboration with the Filmoteca de Catalunya

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