Cinematograph
Category
Technological items
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Measurements
265 mm (length of box lid); 260 mm (length of box base); 220 mm (length of the strip of photograph)
Place of origin
France
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659946
Summary
A cinematograph toy made by Jouet. It consisted of a tower, assumed to be made of cardboard, into which was placed a strip of 48 separate photographs attached to a continious loop. A marble was dropped down this box to hold the strip taught. Total number of items is four A windlass was fixed to the top of the tower and when turned by the handle flipped and moved the photographs. The tower and the marble are missing. There are two loops of photographs each consisting of 48 pictures.