Nice one...
Never seen that in a flash before.
First off, congrats on the daily 2nd, it did well to get there.
Very informative, although I'd of gone on a bit more of stop frame animation, simply because it's great.
Having lived in Italy, I can tell you that it has the biggest animation histort section (or something of the sort), and is held in "The Mole" in Turin (where i used to live), and all those stephiscopes and spinny things (professional term there :P) can be found there.
Congrats, i love this flash.
- James