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  2. Pop-up book - Wikipedia

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    Animated books combine three elements: story, colored illustrations which include text, and "two or more animated illustrations with their movement mechanisms working between a doubled page". [2] In 1938, Julian Wehr 's animations for children's books were patented as "moving illustrations" that move the picture up and down and horizontally at ...

  3. The Moving Picture Books - Wikipedia

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    The Moving Picture Book Company and The Pictorial Color Book Company were early 20th-century American publishers known for producing interactive children's books. These publishers specialized in creating movable books , which featured mechanical illustrations that could move or change scenes with the pull of a tab.

  4. Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia

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    [4] Many of Goldberg's ideas were utilized in films and TV shows for the comedic effect of creating such rigamarole for such a simple task, such as the front gate mechanism in The Goonies and the breakfast machine shown in Pee-wee's Big Adventure. In Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest P. Worrell uses his invention simply to turn his TV on.

  5. Animal Locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Horse galloping The Horse in Motion, 24-camera rig with tripwires GIF animation of Plate 626 Gallop; thoroughbred bay mare Annie G. [1]. Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements is a series of scientific photographs by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1884 and 1885 at the University of Pennsylvania, to study motion in animals (including humans).

  6. Charlie Brown's Super Book of Questions and Answers

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    The content is presented as a series of questions pertaining to the subject of the particular chapter of the books. Amid the questions, pictures and photographs, there are details from established comic strips and complete comic strips, occasionally with its dialogue adjusted to the chapter's theme.

  7. Centrode - Wikipedia

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    The indigo dot draws both centrodes, and also indicates where the moving centrode is in contact with and is rolling around the fixed centrode. A centrode, in kinematics, is the path traced by the instantaneous center of rotation of a rigid plane figure moving in a plane. There are two types of centrodes: a space or fixed centrode, and a body or ...

  8. The Roads Must Roll - Wikipedia

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    The story is set in the near future, when "roadtowns" (wide rapidly moving passenger platforms similar to moving sidewalks, but reaching speeds of 100 mph) have replaced highways and railways as the dominant transportation method in the United States. Heinlein's themes are technological change and social cohesion.

  9. The Moving Toyshop - Wikipedia

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    The book provided the source for the famous merry-go-round sequence at the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. [2] All the major elements of the scene – the two men struggling, the accidentally shot attendant, the out-of-control merry-go-round, and the crawling under the moving merry-go-round to disable it – are present in Crispin's novel, [3] though he received no screen ...