Optical Toys

Pre-cinematic inventions and optical toys that led to the invention of film and animation can be seen here.

Optical Toys include these:
Praxinoscope
Phenakistoscope
Flipbooks

This French site has several demos of old flipbooks.

Here is how to make a flipbook.
You can make an online "Flipbook" here.

The Kinetoscope, an advance in moving pictures, was invented by Thomas Edison.

Here is a link to two collectors who specialize in Optical Toys.

Here is a flipbook made by a student in the summer of 2008:

Make a flipbook (online or on paper) and post it in the comments below.