Betty Nuthall. Flicker Book Number 8.. This item is unavailable.Betty Nuthall. Flicker Book Number 8.

A v good copy with no loose or torn pages. Staple rusty as is common with these titles. Outer wraps marked but still very presentable. Copyright and printed in England on base. Everything for Sports advert on rear wrap. List of all titles on last page. A difficult to find copy of these highly collectable titles. See the great stars in action. The Flicker Sports Series were published circa 1930s. The books were produced by Flicker Productions Ltd in England located at 113b Earls Court Road, London, S.W.5, phone Frobisher 3277. The overall series contains 38 books. Each featured prominent athletes of the era. For example, Don Bradman is featured in book numbers 1, 2 and 3. Books #1-6 feature Cricket, #7-10 Tennis, #11-12 (including 11a,11b and 11c) Golf, #13 Lacrosse, #14 Football, #15 Swimming, #16 Hockey, #20 Greyhound Racing, #21 Badminton, #22-24 Skating and #25 Shooting. This first series was originally aimed at sports fans. A junior series began at numbers 31-38 which included two extremely rare Mickey Mouse titles number 36-(Cheese Trap & Fatty Boy) and number 37-(Cat-Catcher And Bubbles).These two featured a very early and hugely collected 1930s Mickey Mouse. Norman Loudon, who later went on to found Shepperton Film Studios, was at that time experimenting with high speed photography, producing flicker books which he thought could prove an invaluable aid to sportsmen looking to improve their technique by observing the top players in each field in great detail at each stage of their actions. A flicker book is a book that you flip through and by doing so it creates animation. Each book has approximately 100 pages and measures only 2 inches by 3 inches. The book works both forward and backward thus showing the viewer two different ways of best perfecting his or her sport.…