the John Whitney Portfolio

Image of John and his brother James Image of John and his brother James
Image of John and his brother James Image of John and his brother James

Click here for John Whitney Displaying the Mutascope
This is a quicktime movie (3.5MB) of John Whitney displaying the Mutascope. In a sense, this device is like a large flipbook. This particular one contains 1,440 drawings (one minute of animation - 24 frames/second) which were generated by a computer.
All images from the ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review, Issue #68, "An Afternoon With John Whitney"