Creighton University

Here is a fascinating surprise!  I had no idea how this little offering worked.  It came as a spindle containing a roll of paper inside a broken sheath in an old box with a hand-written title.  A little work reveals that there is some beautiful artwork and good storytelling on this product itself.  And the product is a fascinating, if timebound, product of ingenuity.

I found a website explaining the NIC system: https://www.jouetsanciens.fr/jouets-doptique-6/  The unusual thing about the paper film is that it has upper and lower images.  Viewed quickly alternatively, the paired images create a quick repeated action, like walking or working.  A rather large and complex projector had a crank for moving this paper movie through.  I cannot tell how long the projector would linger on a given pair of alternating images.  I scanned the paper in two halves and provide also an image of what a better box and sheath look like.  Fascinating!  And all of this for €2!

By the way, I found a list of NIC movies and checked to see if our GA is the only fable movie.  It turns out that there is a paper movie of FC.  Now to find it!

To help offer a sense of the lovely detail in this movie, I offer two detail sections: the ants playing pool and smoking in winter and the grasshopper dying.