Flick-Book 'Filoscope'

British Patent, 1898, November 3, No.23,158. Henry W. Short, The Filoscope, manufactured by license from the Mutoscope & Biograph Syndicate, Ltd., c. 1900, the red and black lithographed tin toy printed "Henry W. Short, Inventor & Patentee, London, Made in England", with brass lever which when turned causes 159 paper strips with 3/4 x 1" halftone photographs of a horse race at the track to flick giving the illusion of motion. The first paper strip printed "Kinetic Photograph giving the effect of living motion. To accomplish this a series of 190 instantaneous photographs are taken in rapid succession at the rate of about 20 per second".