Movie-Pictures is a form of thaumatrope, an optical toy constructed from a disc or card featuring a different picture on each side and attached to two pieces of string (or in this case held within a thin wire frame). When the strings are twirled rapidly the card rotates on its axis and the two images appear to combine.

Thaumatropes were invented by British physician, John Ayrton Paris in 1825.

Movie-Pictures is a form of thaumatrope, an optical toy constructed from a disc or card featuring a different picture on each side and attached to two pieces of string (or in this case held within a thin wire frame). When the strings are twirled rapidly the card rotates on its axis and the two images appear to combine.

Thaumatropes were invented by British physician, John Ayrton Paris in 1825.

Movie-Pictures is a form of thaumatrope, an optical toy constructed from a disc or card featuring a different picture on each side and attached to two pieces of string (or in this case held within a thin wire frame). When the strings are twirled rapidly the card rotates on its axis and the two images appear to combine.

Thaumatropes were invented by British physician, John Ayrton Paris in 1825.

Movie-Pictures is a form of thaumatrope, an optical toy constructed from a disc or card featuring a different picture on each side and attached to two pieces of string (or in this case held within a thin wire frame). When the strings are twirled rapidly the card rotates on its axis and the two images appear to combine.

Thaumatropes were invented by British physician, John Ayrton Paris in 1825.

Movie-Pictures is a form of thaumatrope, an optical toy constructed from a disc or card featuring a different picture on each side and attached to two pieces of string (or in this case held within a thin wire frame). When the strings are twirled rapidly the card rotates on its axis and the two images appear to combine.

Thaumatropes were invented by British physician, John Ayrton Paris in 1825.