- Subject
- Pre-cinema & optical toys
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- T. W. Eggers
- Provenance
- Presented by E. Heron Allen F.R.S.
- Primary inscriptions
- “Copyright 1897, T.W. Eggers. New York”
- Dimensions
- Height: 50mm Width: 27mm Depth: 22mm Weight: 11g
- Inventory No
- 22974
Description
A flip book containing 48 small photographs, bound together by a staple. These images are animated by holding the book with one hand and rapidly flipping through its pages with the thumb of the other hand. The sequence shows a woman dancing as her dress changes colour. On the cover of the flip book there is a picture of a dancer with a coloured dress.
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