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Animated image: A glass disk of a donkey kicking viewed in Eadweard Muybridge’s zoöpraxiscope. Source: history-cooperative dot org / first-movie-ever-made Depicts a round disk with a central label and spindle hole, as one would see on a vinyl record. Around the outer edge, a loop of silhouettes of sixteen donkeys appear in various stages of kicking out their back legs, bringing their legs in and coming four feet off the ground, and then coming to rest in a standing position. As the image animates, the central label can be seen to rotate. The donkeys appear to remain stationary relative to the label, each moving progressively through each stage of motion, giving the fluid impression that all sixteen are kicking independently.