A new site I found, Optical Toys, has a section featuring vintage paper toys. So very cool.
Here are a few of them. (Actually, I don’t seem to be able to link to them individually. You can find them all starting from the link below, though. So click there first, then go to the side bar and click Paper Toys to find the names I’m listing here):
Mov-I-Graf
Coiffures aux Choix — totally weird paper doll, but that’s why I find it so hysterical. Please check out those hairstyles.
Handshadow Cards
Fore’s Moving Panorama — currently out of stock, but take a look at them, amazing-looking little things called phenakistascopes, precursors of sorts to modern-day film animation. I hope they get more, because I think my nephew Joseph would like them.
The site has a flipbook section, too. Go there and click on “Gestation Animation,” if for no other reason than to read the little blurb there. Who IS that guy?
Other flipbooks that look fun, too:
Whirlwind Moviescope — an old ad for the Whirlwind vacuum.
Oooh. Ooooh! I’m literally discovering this stuff as I write and I must get this for MB! (Hm. Our anniversary is coming up — Groundhog Day, you know. Haha.)
So look at this one, too:
Muybridge Series — a series of flipbooks featuring Eadweard Muybridge’s studies in motion. The man was a pioneer in the advancement of the modern motion picture. Legend. Okay. MB’s gotta have these!
Motion Study, “Woman Jumping Off Stairs”
Okay. Gotta stop. Sorry for the disjointedness here, but I was just clicking over there and then writing over here and just getting swept away by all the quirky cool stuff. Oh, and the prices are really reasonable, I think.
Just go check it OUT.
In your quest for paper based animation, I want to suggest our website http://flipbooker.com/
If you upload a film or video to that website we mail you a paper flipbook! (of course we charge for that.. )
If you are more the DIY type, you can cutout and stapple the frames yourself using free software: http://noah.cx/software/ (last link on page: DYI flipbooks)
Any way, I hope we have piqued your interest!
– noah
Okay, this has nothing to do with your post, but the Colts just beat the Ravens. If the Chargers beat NE tomorrow, this means you guys play us guys for the AFC championship.
Hmm…
I’ve seen and played with a more modern-day version of the Mov-I-Graf in a store. It is strangely fascinating and I messed with it for a while. I don’t know what store or when, but remember having one in my hands.The Paper Automatons by Peter Markeyare awesome. I like the tennis players. I can’t believe they’re made from paper and not from tin or some other thin metal.
The little garden in a box! I want to try to make one myself – he’s inspired me. Thanks, Tracey.