Abstract: A remote controlled image display device includes an assembly of contrast bodies each of which is pivotally mounted for movement between a position of rest and an optionally arrestable position and exhibits to a viewer in combination with a background surface a contrast picture which depends upon which of the two positions the contrast bodies occupy. Movement of the contrast bodies from the rest position to the arrestable position can be effected in various ways such as by means of flexible control threads attached to the bodies, or by use of air jets, and the bodies are held in the arrestable position by releasable electrostatic attractive forces.