Andalusian dance The Filoscope

Red metal chassis with 189 B/W photographic images placed inside tabs. The filoscope, which is also called a flick book or flip book, was a novelty item to animate a drawn or photographic image. It was patented by the English printer John Barnes Linnett in 1868 under the name kineograph. It consisted of a set of cards, on each of which an image of a phase of a movement was reproduced. Bound or gro…