Flicks: How the Movies Began.

Those fortunate enough to attend the Oscar ceremonies are treated to various kinds of swag. In 2001, attendees to the 73^rd Academy Awards received this belly-banded pop-up book using various movable paper mechanisms to demonstrate the progression from 2D illustrations to cinema with a brief history of each. The book contains a removable phenakistoscope, thaumatrope, and zoetrope, all steps leading to the invention of motion pictures. The zoetrope is spun with a finger in the back-cover depression. Tor Lokvig, working for Intervisual Books, is the leader among paper engineers. The book’s mechanisms may be seen on YouTube.