Thomas Edison May Irwin Kiss & Annabelle Butterfly Dance Flipbook

Thomas Edison is credited with the invention of the motion picture. This flipbook illustrates how he used multiple photos to show movement. It shows the very first cinematic kiss and a tribute to butterflys produced by the young Edison Manufacturing Company. Insights to each sequence provided by Edison film scholar Charles Musser. May Irwin Kiss was shot in April, 1896 and Annabelle Butterfly Dance was shot April-August, 1895.