flipbook

or flip book

[ flip-book ]

noun

1. a small book consisting of a series of images in different positions that create the illusion of flowing movement when the thumb is placed so the pages flip quickly.

Example Sentences

The live-action movie, which was delayed because of funding woes and then the death of its director, David Allen, incorporates a stop-motion animation technique in which puppets are painstakingly photographed and brought to life through a series of frames, as with a children’s flipbook.

From New York Times

Although you could look at each image separately, it is often more useful to view them sequentially, like a flipbook in which drawings turn into moving pictures.

From New York Times

Rainbow’s supple voice adapts easily to every tune, and his boyishly handsome face becomes a veritable flipbook of vivid expressions that slide from faux sincerity to skepticism to wide-eyed alarm.

From Seattle Times

With words and images toggling for position, Mau visualized the written word, giving the book the filmic impact of a flipbook.

From New York Times

The book is remembered largely for its photo finish, a reverse flipbook of sorts in which a dead man leaps from the ground and up through the air, back into the no-longer-doomed tower.

From Los Angeles Times