Tim Gets Very Animated!

Visit Tim's Toy Shop, at www.grand-illusions.com/
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Tim demonstrates a wonderful array of pre-cinema animation techniques.
Tim starts by showing how you can use two small pieces of paper to demonstrate the principle of animating a simple stick man, using just two images.
Next, a thaumatrope, an idea which dates originally from the 1830s. It consists normally of a disc that has a different picture on each side. So for example a cage on one side and a parrot on the other side - spin the disc and the bird appears to be in the cage.
Then a recent, mechanical version of a thaumatrope made out of wood. Turn the handle and the picture shows a frog beating a drum.
Then we see a magic lantern slide demonstrated, it is an animated slide. Two characters are turning a skipping rope, and a third character is hopping up and down. Back in the 19th Century, before television or even film had been invented, people must have been amazed at slides like this!
Next, a zoetrope, which is more advanced in that it uses a number of images to create the illusion of movement, not just two. In this case, a galloping horse.
Another version of the zoetrope, which involves a flat disc with slots cut out. You view the image in a mirror, looking through the slots. These were very popular in the 1890s.
Then an animation device that shows a sequence of still images, in this case photographs of a galloping horse taken by Eadweard Muybridge in the late 1880s. Then Tim demonstrates a flip book with Muybridge images of a cat running along.
Then another animation device, a little bit like the 'What The Butler Saw' machines, albeit on a smaller scale. It shows a boxer doing his exercises!
The we see the Praxinoscope, the successor to the zoetrope. Invented in France in 1877, this device uses a series of images that are viewed in a series of mirrors. It gives brighter and less distorted images than the zoetrope.
Then a modern version, where you spin a flat disc on the table, and illuminate it with a stroboscopic torch.
Finally, another modern version, with a series of little blue men that can be adjusted into different poses. Then you spin the whole wheel, and view the figures in the sequence of mirrors in the centre, and the little blue man animates in a delightful way!

[@Bongwater33]

Everyone's favorite Grandpa, who always has something fun to show us when we visit! Thank you!

[@asrieldreemurr8059]

Our favorite internet grandpa We love him

[@jcssbb]

Haha let's immortalize Grandpa Illusions 😂

[@okeanos6391]

The last one with the 3D figures is very gorgeous! It immediately made me think of claymation, which is such a lovely art form.

[@gmanplaysgames256]

These seem so simple and dated to us but imagine living in the 1880s and seeing animation like this for the first time when it was invented. Must have been mind-blowing.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Don't forget that they aren't apes

[@madmanarrivednow]

and the possibility of 3D printing brings back the good old zoetropes, and with mirrors, you don't even need the strobe light.

[@crowznest438]

I'd forgotten about that; we used to make whole flip books of animated adventures. What a fun collection you have there! Interesting that the cat runs forwards and backwards.

[@grahamnichols1416]

No matter how advanced tech gets, it will never have the charm of these simple, but entertaining, novelties. Thanks, Tim.

[@StarNanny]

I have a sci-fi/fantasy novel where-in the author included a flip-animation on the corners of the pages. 🥰 I enjoy little “Easter eggs” like that, and my boys enjoyed the novelty so much they were interested in reading the story; a miracle, at the time. 😂

[@danpym3D]

I'm an animation teacher, this video would be so useful to my students!! It's always amazing to see this devices in action!

[@bostonrailfan2427]

nice of Tim to show toys from when his grandparents were kids….no, seriously: these are all devices based on things from the 1870s/1880s!

[@Wario-The-Legend]

I don't think his grandparents were alive in 1870.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@Wario-The-Legend Tim was born in 1942, his father was born in 1909…it’s definitely right unless his grandparents had kids very young edit: found his family tree, his grandfather was born in 1851!

[@Souc._]

@@bostonrailfan2427how tf you find his family tree

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@Souc._ googled his name, came up with a family tree

[@Souc._]

@@bostonrailfan2427 that’s kinda whack his family tree just pops up 😂

[@RennieAsh]

We used to make the flick through paper animations in the corners of school exercise books

[@CrowSkeleton]

Honestly I'm just entranced by the magic lantern slide, what a beautiful thing. No ad breaks in that, either!

[@kentslocum]

I've never see flipboards being used for animation; the sound is so satisfying! 😊

[@mikeyg9958]

These inventions paved the way for modern film animation. As an animation enthusiast, thanks for showcasing!

[@williamrobinson7435]

Excellent as ever! I think many of us will remember making flicker books when we were kids. Thanks Tim! ⭐👍

[@Zif-the-Old-Herring]

So nice, so nice. A few nerdy friends would do flip drawings in the margins of our school books. I think we were 13 or 14 at the time. We did get into trouble for defacing our books. We claimed it was the damage caused by talented previous classmates. There was a sympathetic Lady collecting our books that seemed to like what we did and, with a wink, looked the other way went she could. Thank You, Mrs. Wheat. Shy, unconfident kids needed your kindness.

[@danforbes3573]

Wonderful collection of animated loveliness, Tim!

[@JohnDoe-ti2np]

2:05 I'd never heard this word before. For others who might want to search for more information, the spelling is "thaumatrope."

[@j.t.1215]

❤Just the sheer science behind this was enough to stop me, but Tim's breadth of knowledge of the toys also is astounding.❤

[@frankhooper7871]

I remember buying several flip-books from Disneyland back in the '50s-'60s

[@AlisNinsky]

This is so sweet! I love these old toys and gadgets!

[@hanzzarkov7690]

Really lovely that you have and show these wonderful old devices of entertainment. Cutting edge in their day, and hopefully still appreciable in ours. Cheers!

[@mikejiggs]

Nicely filmed! Thanks, Tim!

[@AITHEORY-fg7cg]

Tim is still alive our legend

[@franciscoaragao9672]

The camera’s work in this video is also superb.

[@bobwerner6967]

Reminds me of the Wheaties "thumb books" showing Babe Ruth, et al, hitting home runs!

[@kayceetube9450]

Used to watch tim when i was 7 i liked his toys so much

[@janetcarbone4213]

Brilliant!❤😊

[@ayush0477]

nice collection.

[@rickwelch3057]

Is good to see you again. Glad your doing well my friend. Take care

[@elizabethsloan3192]

I had a tin version of those last two. There was a mirrored pillar in the center and various cardboard rings like the cats that fit around it. The whole toy was on a rotating pedestal that you spun. We even made some disks of our own.

[@arielestevan5336]

Enchanting !!

[@FrankBenlin]

The corners of arithmetic books make great flip books.

[@trulyhuman6227]

I'm so glad you are still uploading videos. ❤❤❤

[@Craftsman1988]

That was amazing

[@TwesomE]

This is the most beautiful video i witnessed for days now!

[@FannonValentine]

Thanks Tim!

[@KotaJMomo]

Ah, the bird in the cage. My brother drew a “Kirby in the cage” when we were kids… '_'

[@MariaLucia-vl9oy]

STOP MOTION, ADORO ISSO.

[@MrEnollx]

Thank you for these videos.

[@paultanker5606]

G'day to you Sir, thank you for this ,brought back a lot of Memories ,I am glad I found you, very Entertaining!!

[@EvgenyZyablikov]

Tips and tricks. My respects!

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

00:30 POST-IT FLIP-O-RAMA!?

[@tuioextreme]

Tim is the best

[@marcusperez6459]

that was very cool tim i enjoyed the jump rope projector

[@BinaryJoe]

Hi, Tim, great stuff; I love persistence of movement effects! I'm wondering if you've seen the latest one that combines the last type you showed with the strobe effect? I only learned about the around a month or so ago. The lights need to be out, which is neat because it blacks out much of the machine itself, and when you spin the figures around, a strobe mounted in the carousel only shines on one spot and the figure itself appears animated, rather than being reflected in a mirror. It's a very immersive effect. There are some videos of it on YT, but I'm sure you've probably seen them. Keep up the fun work. 👍

[@SzymonWajner]

Oh... I love these!

[@AA-eq5wk]

the zoetrope is the opposite of the slit experiment; where instead of it observed as a particle(s) starting out outside and then showing up as a wave pattern in the box, the animation starts out in the box as a wave, or contrary patterns to create a positive and negative wave swing, that comes out of the box as a particle(s) or solid story to an observer

[@KingdomDumb]

Splendid!

[@phonotical]

A quick Google of some modern 3d zoetropes make you realise how far we've come, some even have speakinhg models

[@Talia_Vantas]

I love these!!!!

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Merry Christmas Soldier ❤🎅🎄

[@buzz.b]

Mr Meeseeks, teach me how to dance.

[@Jesus...Christ]

love it!

[@lachtougne981]

You are the Best !

[@you2angel1]

I very much enjoyed this. Thank you so much °~•.☆.•~°

[@harleyrdr1]

We used to make stick man versions of those in our school books when I was a kid.

[@user-ch8ph5qo5i]

Best channel ever

[@wickeddelight]

Muybridge, the creator of the first cat animation shown here, was a photographer and his photo books are still in print and used by artists studying animation.

[@josephsmale2060]

Insane work by the person working the camera on this one, not enough credit for the difficult shots in this video!

[@wyatt-rocks]

Very nice showcase. ... And then Walt Disney was born.

[@kimparker4055]

❤ Tim.

[@h7opolo]

love it so much

[@DoubleSmackJacksSmackAttack]

7:02 Cameraman's getting cinematic with that mirror-shot while doing the pan and zoom

[@ikarikid]

Quick note: that other version of the zoetrope is known as a phenakistiscope.

[@Christian-ve1wi]

Amazing artifacts Tim thank-you for sharing these. I've grown up with video games and some of the technologies used frame by frame animation for example a game from the 90's called Flashback an amazing adventure game that used a technique called Rotoscope. Each animation was hand drawn frame by frame then stitched together to create the illusion of movement.. The rotoscope technique was used in many games, Castlevania was another and the technique allows the creator to show more realistic movement but at a painstaking cost of allot of time needed to create the animation..

[@KazyEXE]

Rotoscoping is drawing over actual filmed movements. Hand drawn frame by frame was just the base form of animations until computers came along.

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

I have a mighty need.

[@TayWoode]

I’ve still got a flip book I made of the genie dancing then getting sucked into the bottle from “I dream of Jeannie”

[@thekeeperofsecrets1615]

This man is Santa Claus and you cannot convince me he isn’t

[@laffairelolaestunfakedemac9695]

Yes very good ..

[@MattXShaver]

There’s a great collection of things like this at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA! I highly recommend it for anyone interested

[@werewolf74]

used to make flick books in any notepad or book we could get away with.

[@panopticonoctopus560]

I wonder if Tim knows of/has played Bioshock Infinite. The Bird and the Cage Lutece Twins - brings back fond memories.

[@lgb4]

It's going to be a good day!

[@okancanarslan3730]

Amazing devices

[@JMPT]

Grandy Nice

[@polipop1113]

If this guy speaks with American Southern accent, the channel could be perceived very differently.

[@krevetkinos]

"stickman or stick woman" 😂

[@MGM697]

Very subperb

[@TadashiYee]

Where can I buy the blue men toy?

[@Velodynamic]

They still works, without batteries and failing electronics...

[@kareemmendoza5004]

I think vat 19 used to sell one of those

[@phonotical]

You electrified your magic lantern?! 🙈🙈

[@bostonrailfan2427]

candles are a fire hazard

[@phonotical]

@@bostonrailfan2427 barely

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@phonotical more than you think but you wouldn’t accept anything but full agreement so good day, sir

[@phonotical]

@@bostonrailfan2427 code for I didn't even bother trying so gave up before I was asked 🤣 idiot

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

~💜~

[@TylerSkovdalStudio]

Vat19 used to sale the Blue stick animation device but not anymore

[@grandillusions]

Hi - yes, we also stocked it for a while. Invented by a friend of ours - Rufus Butler Seder www.rufuslifetiles.com/ - he no longer has these made. Sadly.

[@tqft]

2:46 who else is seeing pennywise..... lol

[@thenormalguy5434]

Hello!!.

[@nikialexson5390]

Последняя игрушка понравилась бы Ивану Грозному.

[@graphictwitch-5355]

Youd make a wonderful voice actor for LittleBigPlanet. Your collections would fit right in, too

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

If only that wasn't neglected in the imagisphere.

[@ThisUsernameSystemF-ckingSucks]

Stephen Fry honestly can't be beaten. I really hope we get an actual LBP4.

[@ThisUsernameSystemF-ckingSucks]

Just a real shame Sony got as greedy as Microsoft for online being paid. I can hope they bring LBP4 to PC.

[@sabrinawelsh3543]

6:43 world's oldest cat video

[@infctdppt]

Bro if you don't want my apple with a hat just say so

[@godofdream9112]

Show your hunted collection....

[@macroplexx]

!!

[@astonious]

coolio

[@user-mgc]

Pesky frame rates...

[@mickthebandit]

Why the mirror? It would work without it 🤔

[@franzfiranken7548]

bro i dont have this options

[@zo0mie777]

First❤

[@edebethtumulak8684]

ITS NOPE MOVIE😮!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@markv3065]

Some of those toys appeared in Sleepy Hollow