"Hollywood: Dessins animés tirés des Fables de La Fontaine et Sujets divers."

Title

"Hollywood: Dessins animés tirés des Fables de La Fontaine et Sujets divers."

Description

1950? "Hollywood: Dessins animés tirés des Fables de La Fontaine et Sujets divers." Animated cinema toy. F.M. Paris. €30 from entrepot*d through Ebay, Nov., '23.

This is a most unusual toy. There are two key elements: a viewing implement and 38 cardboard strips, about 11⅜" x 1½". The implement is a sliding wooden frame with a channel perfectly matching the width of the cardboard strips. Above this channel are perhaps forty plastic or glass rods that refract the images passing below them. The hoped-for result is that the images, otherwise hard to decipher, become movie loops, showing a repeated action. Though the package mentions La Fontaine fables, I can find only two that I recognize: GA and LM. Other strips that take on a life for me are a tightrope walker; a train; and a dog chasing a man. It is quite possible that I have not mastered the right speed for moving the strips underneath the frame. I would say that this is a very creative idea that did not quite get worked out fully.

Date

1950?

Source

€30 from entrepot*d through Ebay, Nov., '23.

Subject

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