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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. 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.

  5. Move Over, Mickey! New Donald Duck Book Explores the ... - AOL

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    Move Over, Mickey! New Donald Duck Book Explores the 'Miraculous World' of One of Disney's Most Iconic Characters (Exclusive) Virginia Chamlee, Kate Hogan. December 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM.

  6. Interactive children's book - Wikipedia

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    Movable books, a subsection of interactive books, are defined as "covering pop-ups, transformations, tunnel books, volvelles, flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, pull-downs, and more, each of which performs in a different manner. Also included, because they employ the same techniques, are three-dimensional greeting cards."

  7. 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.

  8. 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).

  9. Moving On (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Moving On is a 1970 American novel by Larry McMurtry.His fourth novel, it focuses on Patsy Carpenter and her husband Jim in contemporary Texas. Larry McMurtry called it "a book partly about graduate school, partly about rodeo, and partly about the indecision that is likely to afflict young marrieds, particularly those who belonged to what used to be called the Silent Generation."