Sentence:  A paper-over-board book based on a new technology that its inventor, the author, calls “scanimation”: mimicking the effect of a <WSD>kinetoscope</WSD>, the pictures of animals, birds and fish seem to move with extraordinary naturalism. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter.