iPod Video circa 1930

I ran into this magnificent hack while doing research at the great Museu del Joguet de Catalunya (Museum of Toys of Catalonia, in Figueres, Spain). This clever artifact allowed you to turn your phonograph into a zootrope so you could watch short animated films on it. According to the displayed data, it was built in England around 1930 by Reid and Co. - a piano manufacturer. Interestingly, it does not seem to combine visuals and music since it would be technically possible to include a soundtrack for the animation. My guess is that the animation was so short that it was not worth to produce an expensive record to go with it.
The kinephone -as it was called- on display features Felix the Cat. In other words, it did pretty much what the rumored iPod video is supposed to do. I wonder if you could port Doom into it...

You can find higher-res versions of these images here and here. Figueras is about 2 hours from Barcelona and it is better known for being the home of the Dalí Museum. I never liked Dalí that much and the museum, while worth visiting, was not nearly as interesting to me as this Toy museum. The collection mainly focuses on Catalonian and Spanish toys, as well as some French, European and US games and toys. The exhibit includes many dolls -specially Mariquita Perez, a very popular 20th century Spanish doll- and rarities such as Spanish Civil war games and dolls as well as wooden toys designed by Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García.