Re: History of Flip Books? Need some info.

jeff wrote:
> Any "leads" you can provide to point me in the right direction to
> research this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Two sidelights that might make useful anecdotal material: One is 
that the movie "Ragtime" has a large subplot involving, at first, 
flipbooks. The other is the movie "Bedlam" with Boris Karloff. One 
of the inmates in the notorious British mental hospital proudly 
shows a visitor a flipbook he has made, and we learn that he's in 
Bedlam because he invented motion pictures.

I remember in the mid-late 60s that Cracker Jacks had flip books as 
prizes. "High and Dry Diver" is the only title I recall.

Flipbooks occasionally show up here and there. The underground Bijou 
Comics had a flip book for readers to cut out and paste together. 
National Lampoon's "Very Large Book of Comical Funnies" (actually 
more of a double issue of the magazine in size) had a "Dirty Duck" 
flip book by Bobby London on the edges. Leslie Cabarga used one in 
his book "The Fleischers," along with the admonition not to flip it 
too much or the book would become worn. The paperback book with the 
script for Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" had four scenes you could 
watch by riffling pages.

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