They’re called folioscopes in France and translate to ‘thumb cinema’ in German, but they’re best known as flipbooks. Images come to life when you rapidly flip through pages of sequential illustrations or photographs. Popular since the 1860s, flipbooks have been used as promotional tools, cereal box prizes and artworks. They have animated everything from boxing matches and erotic dances to political propaganda and cartoons.
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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-02. Play and Illusion → MI-02-C02