In 1923 Lin began his studies at the Taya public school. When he was about ten, he would draw separate, slightly changing images of people on the empty corners of the pages of his textbooks. By then moving his thumb along the outside corner of the book, the individual drawings appearing in rapid succession would look like a single moving image.
1923 年，林之助進入大雅公學校就讀，大約十歲就會按課本頁次，在角落空白處細心畫好人物分解動作，快速翻頁時，產生連續動畫效果。