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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE BRUNEI (AF Brunei) held a screening of 3 animated films  at the Pusat Ehsan on Tuesday 10th April 2012 during the French Film Festival week.  The Little Dragon & Madagascar,  A Diary of a Journey - were selected from the Short Film Program and A Cat in Paris  was a full length feature film.

About 70 students from the charity centre attended the screening and were delighted by the animated films which drew cheers and applause from the children. Representatives from the Alliance Francaise organised some activities for the children to create animation inventions from the 19th century. The children were taught to make simple creative moving picture devices - the Zoetrope, Thaumatrope and Flip books -  from cardboard, pictures and sticks.



The Zoetrope consists of a cylinder with vertical slits on the sides.  On the inside is a band of images of a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits and sees a succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

The Thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times.  A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to 2 pieces of strings.  When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the 2 pictures appear to combine into a single image due to a 'persistence of vision'.

Filp books are books with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children.

All of the three moving picture devices were the ancestors of animation and cinema. Using items such as cardboard, paper, frame by frame printouts of a character or a scene, and add some movement to create optical illusions,  you are carried to a world of moving pictures through these devices.

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