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LicenseShort's Filoscope 'The Train'. The British Mutoscope & Biograph Co Ltd. Henry W Short (patentee/inventor).
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Short's Filoscope 'The Train'. Manufactured by The British Mutoscope & Biograph Co Ltd, Henry W Short (patentee/inventor), 1897.
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:
- 2015-5029
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), cardboard, paper (fibre product) and white metal (unknown)
- Measurements:
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overall (estimate): 70 mm x 100 mm x 30 mm, .55kg
- type:
- flip books
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
