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Bird of Paradise. Martini Glass. The Classic. The seductive Dita Von Teese presents three tightly-animated flipbooks that feature some of her most well-known routines. The Queen of Burlesque wraps it all in a velvet box with a literal bow. This vintage, out-of-print package makes for a unique and wonderful gift. A classy romp with a vintage pin-up vibe.
The Flipbook Museum presents a personalized letter of authenticity with each purchase. All proceeds from our sales are returned to the Flipbook Museum to help fortify our permanent collection and continue our advocacy for this whimsical art form. Each new flipbook owner becomes a part of a global bookshelf of living photographs, frame-by-frame snippets of a time and place. We are thrilled to share this passion for early cinematic innovation with patrons.
The Flipbook Museum, established in 1987, is dedicated to the preservation of the history of hand-held animation from the intricate carvings of Bronze Age earthenware to the earliest experiments in stop-motion by wildman Edweard Muybridge. All flipbooks are historically valuable from the bawdy mutoscopes of disreputable saloons to the intricate, three dimensional puzzles of the modern era. Each item sold in the Flipbook Museum gift shop is a part of our vast collection of out-of-print rarities. They are all hand-picked by our curators who are committed to the joys of thumb cinema.
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