Flip Book
A flip book is a collection of combined pictures that can be flipped over to give the illusion of movement and the ability to create an animated sequence from a simple small book without a machine. It was very popular at the end of 19th century and the beginning of 20 the century.
Flip book was originally called Kineograph(moving picture) and its first appearance was on September in 1868. It was patented John Barnes Linnett under the name of Kineograph .
In 1894, Herman Casler invented a mechanized form of flip book called the Mutoscope.
In 1897, the English film-maker Henry William Short marketed his “Filoscope”, It was a flip book that was placed in a metal holder to facilitate flipping.
Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but the audience can also be towards adults.
They were first appeared with a small notebook that was originally stapled but nowadays you hold in one hand while you flip over the pages with the thumb of the other hand, either from front to back or from back to front.
Flip books are mainly popular with cartoons. Most times, animation for flip books was wholly original. Usually done by top animators at the studios – an extra, exclusive cartoon for those lucky enough to obtain them.
I like the ones that Walter Disney originally created his motion pictures by the use of flip book.
The earlier days of animation involved thousands of hand-drawn sketches unlike today’s computer generated pictures such as Tom and Jerry, Barney bear, Droopy, Woody the woodpecker, Andy Panda and more.
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