Media maverick: Professor legitimizes media forms of the past

A lightbulb flicks on inside a red cast-iron box as Professor Erkki Huhtamo cranks the wheel attached to it.

As he continues cranking, tiny flip cards with printed black and white images whir around a spinning wheel underneath the light. By peering into the device’s lens, a viewer can see a moving image created by the movement: a woman visiting the monkey house of a zoo.