Filoscope

Manufacturer	Henry William Short
Name	Folioscope
Place	Great Britain
Date	1898
Register	1332

The filoscope, which is also called a flick book or flip book, was a novelty item to animate a drawn or photographic image. It was patented by the English printer John Barnes Linnett in 1868 under the name kineograph. It consisted of a set of cards, on each of which an image of a phase of a movement was reproduced. Bound or grouped together in the form of a book and quickly leafed through, it gave the impression that the image was moving. This effect relied, like cinema, on the persistence of vision to create the illusion of continuous movement. The device in this image is the model that the English film-maker Henry William Short began to market in 1897 under the name filoscope, with reproductions of film frames from that era.

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