Metal-cased Filoscope
- Made:
- London
- maker:
- Henry W Short
Optical toy: Metal-cased filoscope with printed kinetic subject including title, information, and descriptive, picture sheet numbered 2 -175 and fourteen blank end sheets. Most probably 'Street Scene, Westminster'.
Invented by Robert W Paul's (1869-1943) cameraman, Henry W Short, this was a small hand-held flip-book device, using a lever to flip over separate pictures to give the illusion of movement. Each filoscope contained a hundred or so frames reproduced from a professional film, many of them by Paul. They were marketed from 1897 onwards by the Anglo-French Filoscope Syndicate.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Object Number:
- 1993-5011/2
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy) and paper (fibre product)
- type:
- optical toy and filoscope
- credit:
- Christie's
