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'Living Photograph' Flip Book, by Gies & Co., USA, c.1897

Inventory Number 19480

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.19480

Item type
Object
Makers
Gies & Co
Provenance
Presented by E. Heron Allen F.R.S
Primary inscriptions
“The Yankee Cop. Copyright-M.Kingsland-1897” “Gies & Co's”. - Living Photograph. - patent Applied for – Draw thumb over top edge and pictures will appear as it ALIVE – Pictures are taken by Special Photographic Machinery invented by us"
Physical material
Paper
Card
Dimensions
Height: 60mm Width: 40mm Depth: 42mm Weight: 46g
Inventory No
19480

Description

A flip book containing 84 small photographic images. 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 image sequence shows a man being struck by a younger man, the two men fighting, and a policeman arriving to hit the first man while the second man laughs.

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