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| ...and attaches the rabbit to it. Each assembler will work on the exact same piece while all the books are being put together. This way the assembler becomes an expert building that particular pop-up! |
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At the other end of the table the results of all that folding and gluing is apparent. A finished pop-up page with all the pieces attached! |
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After all the pop-ups are glued into the pages, the pages themselves are glued to each other. |
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| The pages are stacked together into piles. When the pages of a book are glued together the finished result is called a "signature." |
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Soon the entire table is covered with signatures! But before they have a chance to spill over onto the floor, the signatures are removed to a different table and the whole process of making new signatures begins again. |
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Sometimes pop-up books have things in them that are not really pop-ups. Alice Adventure's contains a Victorian peep show that shows Alice falling down the White Rabbit's hole. This peep show is assembled the same way all the pop-ups are. |
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| At the end of each table one person checks to make sure that all the pop-ups in the book work. This person is called the "quality controller" and if they see that a mistake has been made they can go back down the table to see who is responsible for it. |
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One of the most challenging pop-ups was the final page that shows Alice in a whirlwind of playing cards. A great deal of time was spent making sure that this particular pop-up worked correctly. |
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But in the end all that hard work is worth it. Alice has become one of the most successful and complex pop-up books ever to cross Excel's tables! |
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