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Description: What-the-butler-saw machine at Herne Bay Museum and Gallery. Possibly Edwardian. These tourist amusements used a set of flicking cards containing sequential photographs to simulate moving pictures; they were cheap attractions in the entrances to indoor amusement arcades on piers or on the seafront. They tended to contain quaint and voyeuristic flicks: a typical one still in use at Southend pier in 1963 had a butler peeping through a keyhole to see his lady employer showing her ankles and voluminous bloomers.
Title: What the butler saw machine 033
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Author: Linda Spashett Storye_book
Permission: My copyright photo of public area of public building as per Panoramafreiheit in United Kingdom: see Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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