make flip

“Animation Toys,” in which children can make flip books and zoetropes.

Those who want to explore cinema further can meet visiting directors and make flip books, an old form of moving image.

This Saturday, for instance, casual visitors can quickly use paper to make flip books or thaumatropes, simple 19th-century-style optical toys that created the earliest forms of animation.

The late Lord de Tabley—better or at least longer known as Mr. Leicester Warren—once gave a dinner at the Athen�um at which I was present, and had up from his Cheshire cellars some of the old ale for which that county is said to be famous, to make flip after dinner.

Cisco announced this week it will no longer make Flip cameras and is pulling back on its consumer product strategy.