A popular miniature interactive toy.
A popular miniature interactive toy. Children take an empty matchbox and draw a long, continuous comic strip of illustrations on a strip of paper. They thread the paper strip through the inner drawer of the matchbox, sliding it along to show a moving "movie" or slideshow through a small window cut in the outer sleeve.
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