World’s OLDEST Flipbook 😲

I go deep into the archives of a museum in England to investigate two of the world's oldest flipbooks.
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Special Thanks to Claire Mayoh
Research and Coordination - Josh Wagner
Written and Edited by Andy Bailey
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Welcome to my channel! In addition to making flipbooks, I am a stop-motion animator and worked on the movies ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Chicken Run Dawn of the Nugget. I fell in love with animation as a kid and have been doing it ever since.
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[@auroragaming.]

He rickrolled us in the 2 seconds the video began.

[@Randomlystuff]

I didn't even notice

[@TheTirtil52]

Thanks for telling me I skipped it by ten seconds

[@TheTirtil52]

Then I went back and saw it was a rickroll

[@gaddielamandoron6046]

Oof

[@Sansthe_gamer]

5:12

[@Rainbow_ismagic]

appreciate you finding a way to share the unflippable flip books

[@Becky-uz8em]

Me too! Did you send a copy of the videos to the museum to add to their digital archives?

[@WolfWriterL.P]

@@Becky-uz8em lol

[@christianweatherbroadcasti3491]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16❤😊❤❤

[@BiggestEmuFan]

@@christianweatherbroadcasti3491I don’t understand how this is related to the video 😅

[@eain9009]

I have been to this museum, they flipbooks were not on display, i never knew they had secret archives. You were very lucky to have got to see behind the scenes and given access, i do wonder what else they have hidden away.

[@samitpaudel7886]

I am so grateful to see someone share their passion with so much care with the world. Most of the time, if it is genuine and the circumstances supports, the world responds too. This response is magical. I thinks its what everyone should strive to live for. I find you very very inspirational Andy. The video where you share your first inspiration piece of flipbook with the teacher who inspired you was absolutely fantastic too.

[@andymation]

Thank you 🙏 ❤️

[@christianweatherbroadcasti3491]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16😊❤❤❤

[@FlipBookBoy]

Not only were they the first flipbooks, but the first animations as well, that's crazy! Also, the new flipbook kit looks awesome with the new box and screws, might have to pick it up and check it out.

[@emmettdavis7522]

actually caveman make the first animations 🤓

[@Jaichbinhier]

8:37 I can see why the skeleton flipbook has survived 150+ years like that: The skeleton has maintained his great shape with consistent jumping jacks. 💪

[@TarrareyoutubeOF]

So jumping jacks are the secret to immortality

[@Maximus-tz3gx]

Goona do 3000% more jumping jacks

[@littlefox_100]

​​@MANTIS__DOES__STUFF I guess I'm dying soon.

[@vanessavaldes293]

Thanks for making it possible for us to see the moving flipbook features of these artifacts! It's so great to see the museum/archive working with you to achieve something that helps this artifact come to life for the public while also preserving it as much as possible for future exhibition.

[@angelbarrios426]

"Kineograph", "Filoscope" and "Folioscope"; it looks that name the early flipbooks wasn't easy. It's such a good thing you keep sharing with us your passion for the art of flipbooks, Andy.

[@magesticwafl]

I can imagine in like 100 years some scientists are gonna be inspecting a pringles bag

[@hester_of_ravenclaw]

Imagine in a thousand years Covid is gonna be the new Bubonic Plague

[@Keir-art]

BAGGGG?

[@Nir_Shachrur]

I don't know how it happened but I was moved to tears by this video, thank you Andy for sharing and for going and filming there, it's amazing and interesting content

[@andymation]

Thanks!

[@kiwi__1011]

i loved visiting the media museum as a kid, it’s one of the things that got me interested in animation

[@trippx]

we need more stuff like this i really found this video interesting keep up the good work 🔥🙏

[@andymation]

Thanks 🙌

[@chelsearussell3778]

I agree with you, we definitely need more stuff like this.

[@arfinachiro5454]

Not going to lie every single videos you make feels like a master piece ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

[@masterswx]

Yes asshile

[@dwerical]

So crazy to think that flipbooks have been thought of this long ago.

[@annagloria2332]

Looks like a full circle moment for Andy! Sometimes your efforts (for the artform), get rewarded in the most beautiful ways.

[@tiffanymilan5579]

This was truly amazing to be able to see. Thank you Andy

[@gnayr1305]

Wow! What a great place. You must have been like a kid in a candy store. Thank you so much for sharing…and for doing the extra to show us the flicks. And thank you to Carol for showing you the depths of the archives. 🙏

[@SabiduriaVirtuosa]

Wow! Old flipbooks! And they still have they’re shape!😮

[@matthewgraham470]

Andymation was just in Bradford! I live literally right across the M62! Wish I could've met him

[@kashigata]

Wow! This made unexpectedly emotional. My grandfather had a zoetrope of horses racing and doing jumps that I used to play with growing up. It was stolen by another relative. I have mourned the loss of that item for decades. This brought back memories of him showing me how it worked by drawing some stick figures on the edge of a paperback, animating them in a crude but miraculous way, to my young mind. At 60 I still miss my grandfather a lot. So lovely to be reminded of him in this way. Thank you!

[@w3irdthings935]

Woah! I wish I could see this flipbook in person!

[@pallavidwivedi]

Wow those flipbooks are awesome. I love your flipbook kit too.

[@Inds]

Babe wake up, Andy posted

[@laruebailey698]

Well done, Andy! I learned so much. Thank you!

[@JUSTL0RE]

wow, this is a quite interesting and great museum! i hope i can go there one day and check it out! love the video :D

[@andymation]

Thank you 🙏

[@JUSTL0RE]

@@andymation your welcome! happy to see that u replied! :D

[@jewelpatingo183]

i can imagine that 100 years from now your flipbooks will also be in a museum with this much care haha

[@a_weird_mess3]

This was so cool to see! So simple, yet so magical!! Flipbooks are just so amazing :)

[@MrPleers]

A visit to the museum of the moving image in London may also be your cup of tea. I went there ages ago. And even watched The Seven Samurai on the big screen.

[@ToganLikesToAnimateYT]

I have made a lot of flipbooks with your flip book kit and have done stop motion and computer animation! Well tablet animation

[@garyrichardson475]

Massively fascinating! I love this stuff!

[@thecinematicmind]

Going to Bradford back in November through photography and cinema as a delight.

[@benjaminabbottscott]

This is fantastic. Thank you.

[@emilyking8542]

“The struggle is real” 🤣

[@MrPinkfloydian]

So cool! Thanks. Interesting to see flipbooks in a media museum (now I wonder if my city's media museum also has a relics corner like that 🤔). Then it hit me. Although our flipbooks are animation... it could actually be seen as... the TV wonder of the poor back in the old days. It's a movie but in a different format. Never have seen it through that perspective. "The horse in motion" by Muybridge could also be said to fit this notion... although it is cabinet cards (photography).

[@briannakadlecik1903]

This is so fascinating! Great video!

[@zonanimz9990]

Awesome video Andy. Missed the video by a day, but I’m here 😊

[@Tardvark]

*As you put on the glove, blow into it. It'll make sliding your hand in easier.*

[@SarahJacksonLV]

This was so cool!!

[@jeremypalmer5695]

Super cool video. I wonder if when flip books were first used as an instructional video.

[@kellianthony3538]

That’s so cool that you get to see all that in person? :) What a lucky, creative, intelligent man!

[@Dan1066]

This was such a great look at the history. Thanks!

[@BearTracks125]

Hey Andy, I love your videos keep up the amazing work

[@Toe_jammer.]

0:02 was the best moment

[@emilyking8542]

The world before the internet was not the world but hell

[@noctilucent9414]

That was such an interesting video, i’ll be waiting for more videos like this❤

[@CharlieCreech-zu5so]

Amazing video! It’s so cool to see we only came up with this concept relatively recently. Also, it’s cool to see that you’re making some content while you’re over in Britain for Chicken Run 2, Andy! Jealous of those new screws in the flipbook kit. Also, when will the 8x paper be back in stock? Eager to pick some up to try out with my new Coptic markers!

[@NancyLebovitz]

If you're interested in flipbooks in fiction, Elizabeth Hand's _Hard Light_ has a (hypothetical) paleolithic flip object-- a disk with an open eye on one side and a closed eye on the other, designed to be twirled with a string.

[@chelsearussell3778]

That was totally awesome! I really wish I could visit that museum but I don’t live in England. The flip books were cool and it’s amazing to be able to see some of the first flip books even if you didn’t get to flip them. What were your favorite things to see in the museum?

[@poppyfairy9559]

He Rick rolled us faster tha I can blink

[@shoppinglist6506]

Rickroll rap again?

[@eligaming26.]

Now remake them

[@frasermcgeough]

This is so cool! It’s crazy to think they are over 150 years old!

[@ChainsawFPV]

Great video! May I suggest a gyro on your camera tho. Would make the video more enjoyable if its not jumping all around.

[@lilabluestars85]

These are sooooo awesome!!!

[@CashytheCrash]

I love these I love your channel😍

[@PoodleNoir990]

Es increíble la antigüedad de esos flipbooks , muy interesante y bueno 👌👍

[@harpermartin6806]

I remember getting a flip book out of a cracker jack box back in the early 70s...back when cracker jack toys were cool

[@pink_phoenix]

Kineograph just means moving image. Kineo is like kinetic (moving) and graph is a picture

[@willmcallister6584]

Amazazing!

[@basic_brownie]

Idk why I couldn't type anything earlier but anyway I love your flipbooks Edit: I'm second

[@savebatsfromscratch]

This is so cool wow!

[@NuniPikachu]

That was so interesting. I never really thought about the origin

[@MacysKraziLife]

This intro....is unmatched.

[@andymation]

😁

[@matthewbrookeart]

Used to go there in university when they had the animation festival, really cool place not been in a while

[@Halberds8122]

Wow! I bet my father would be interested in this!

[@ashleyr6809]

Learning about the history of flipbooks is so interesting.

[@MariaGreenwoodArt]

I just got a notification for this video as soon as I tapped on it.

[@user-er2rt4tp7j]

In 2012 and 2019 those vocals were inhuman 😂😂😂 she was born perfect 😊😊😊

[@thiscat9712]

i heard something about an ancient toy in the stone age where there's a coin with 2 images and it would flipped with a thread and would create the illusion of movement

[@erikalwomack6684]

2:05 Me when I draw hands:

[@andymation]

🤣

[@user-ej6ji1ty8m]

I subscribed youre videos are verry cool keep it up👍👍

[@user-hl9nd2xk7n]

The gloves moment is gold.

[@stephanieellis7840]

You should totally make a flip-book of a cereal break!

[@theyoungone9529]

You should do a video where you recreate the old flip books

[@-.S4turns_Pupp3ts.-]

hehe i love the gloves part. i found a dog that i really love but my parents won't let me adopt him. i cried for like an hour earlier and this made me really happy. ❤

[@DisappointedDragon]

I love old visual tech I was always amazed by viewmasters and the like

[@julianwilliams9088]

The Mutoscope is a giant flip book so you should probably build one for your channel or get one and make a reel for it

[@SpeedyOctopus21]

Awesome vid keep it up

[@Penguin_animation]

Bro this is dope

[@wachamcaulit]

Late to the party but this is what I really wanted to see in my life and glad I can see them now. :](although they can't be flipped)

[@BTF_13579]

i live so close to bradford i might check it out

[@emilyking8542]

Andy where that museum at??? I really wanna go there it looks pretty cool

[@andymation]

Bradford England 👍

[@Kenaniah82]

His skills are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@chrish1695]

is no one going to talk about how that skeleton is very "happy" :D

[@theoneandonlyvibo]

He's lying. There was never a time without memes.

[@user-cu1rw1ek2q]

they brought back 😊The old Garbage patch kids

[@realGHouse]

It's crazy to see what it was like over 150 years ago

[@jadonbean6]

That’s amazing

[@emilyking8542]

❤ the Channel name Andy!

[@supersean0837]

You've become so powerful, You've acquired The Oldest Flipbook

[@CallumPage]

I’m a 2005 baby and one of my favourite movies as a kid was the super ted movie I think it was the super ted in space episode

[@monahs788]

i loveeeeeeeeee ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

[@brandielara7704]

Yes it is

[@Isimpforsamandcolby]

Bro was struggling with those gloves🤣

[@laruebailey698]

We love Super Ted too.

[@fenrik8178]

I need that doll house sized camera in my life....

[@andymation]

Right?!

[@fenrik8178]

I’d probably use it to make so many cool collages, also it’s just neat. They need to bring it back like they did with the Polaroid :)

[@chelsearussell3778]

@@fenrik8178 Yes, they totally should. I would definitely buy that. Coolest camera ever!

[@farisha_171]

0:02 He Rickrolled us in

[@luciemunne6322]

I must have said wow about 5 million times while watching this video

[@baxterrath3975]

I've been to Bradford museum before twice

[@Eve_Glitch]

Dang!😮

[@treyg1]

Imagine flipbook artists back then being called "Kineographers" 😂

[@Pallethands]

I thought some monks in the middle ages had done some crude animation in the margins in some books.