Two Kineograph Flicker Books

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: circa 1868 in England

inventor:: John Barnes Linnett

Flicker books (2): windmill, illustration in original patent

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Flicker books (2): windmill, illustration in original patent
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The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
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Flicker books (2): windmill, illustration in original patent, cover and 1st pages missing; dancing skeleton. Linnett's patent.

Flicker books have a series of slightly different images in each pages, when flicked through quickly, the pictures appear animated. Although Pierre-Hubert Desvignes is usually credited with inventing the flicker book, John Barnes Linnett of London was the first to patent a design. These flicker books with designs of a dancing skeleton and a windmill are made to Linnett’s patent.

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Category:: Cinematography

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/7213

type:: flicker book

credit:: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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Flicker book windmill; illustration used by John Linnett in

Kineograph 'Windmill' Flicker Book

Flicker book windmill; illustration used by John Linnett in original patent application. One of two flicker books, Linnett's patent.

A flip book, flipbook,flicker book, or kineograph is a booklet with a series of images that very gradually change from one page to the next, so that when the pages are viewed in quick succession, the images appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. John Barnes Linnett was a British lithograph printer based in Birmingham, England and was the first to patent the invention, in 1868, under the name of kineograph.