Google Doodle honours physicist who brought cinema to life

Way back in 1832 when Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau invented the phenakistiscope -- the first device to give the illusion of a moving image -- little did he know that he was laying the foundation stone for an industry that will entertain us in myriad forms -- from cinema and TV to the over-the-top (OTT) players like Netflix.

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