In the 1830's, the Zoetrope was invented.

This was something that you looked through a small slit in a cylinder and the cylinder rotated rapidly and it gave the illusion of many static images being a moving image. This is an example of persistence of vision, where the eyes see something after it isn't there anymore for a short amount of time. 

The earliest zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the inventor Ting Huan. When the device was spun at the right speed, pictures painted on the panels would appear to move. the pictures were drawn on a strip which could be set around the bottom third of a metal drum, with the slits now cut in the upper section of the drum.The drum was mounted on a spindle and spun; viewers looking through the slits would see the cartoon strip form a moving image. The faster the drum was spun, the smoother the animation appeared.

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