technamation

A technique used to create animations by passing polarized light through a revolving disc onto transparent plastics.

Noun

  1. A technique used to create animations by passing polarized light through a revolving disc onto transparent plastics.
    • A spectacular new training facility has come into being with technamation[…] - 1962, The school science review, volume 43, numbers 149-151:
    • […]a demonstration of overhead projection and the technamation process by representatives of the Tecnifax Corporation. - 1963, Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Audiovisual instruction...
    • Large groups call for various types of projections; transparencies, films, filmstrips, technamations, slides, etc. - 1969, Mary Eleanor Spear, Practical charting techniques:

Origin

From a trademark of the 1950s, perhaps from technical animation.

Forms

technamations