Filoscope: Street Scene, Westminster
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
- Made:
- circa 1900 in London
- maker:
- Henry W Short and Robert William Paul
Filoscope. Lever operated flicker book, street scene, Westminster (R W Paul subject). Invented by Henry W Short; manufactured under licence from The British Mutoscope Company.
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
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7190
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product), white metal (unknown) and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 100 mm x 90 mm x 25 mm, .08 kg
- type:
- filoscope
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford