<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures . Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector . The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion . The stop - motion images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes . A second series of discs, made in 1892--1894, used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically, then colored by hand . Some of the animated images are highly complex, featuring multiple combinations of sequences of animal and human movement . </P> <P> The device appears to have been one of the primary inspirations for Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson's Kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system . Images from all of the known seventy - one surviving zoopraxiscope discs have been reproduced in the book Eadweard Muybridge: The Kingston Museum Bequest (The Projection Box, 2004). </P>

Who invented the zöopraxiscope which projected still photographs in rapid succession