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Before the invention of cinema, various moving image toys and tools thrilled and terrified spectators. From the camera obscura to the phantasmagorical magic lantern shows, come learn with me about pre-cinema!
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Filmed using:
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– [ Ссылка ]
Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – [ Ссылка ]
Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– [ Ссылка ]
Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– [ Ссылка ]
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Sources
Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern by Mervyn Heard
Techno-Logics and Techno-Magics: Phantasmagoria in the Age of Electricity by Kati Röttger
Realms of Light by Richard Crangle
Technology's ghosts: Loie Fuller & the Magic Lantern by Jody Sperling
City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907 by Peter Lunenfeld for LACMA
The magic lantern, how to buy and how to use it. Also How to Raise a Ghost by “a Mere Phantom”
Phantasmagoria: Ghostly entertainment of the Victorian Britain by Yurie Nakane
A History of Early Film Volume 1 by Stephen Herbert
A History of Pre-cinema Volume 3 by Stephen Herbert
The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema By Murray Leeder
History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kineto-phonograph By William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Antonia Dickson
The Art of Projection and Complete Magic Lantern Manual By “Expert” 1893
The dictionary of the arts, sciences, and manufactures By George William Francis
The Art of Projecting: A Manual of Experimentation in Physics, Chemistry, and Natural History, with the Porte Lumière and Magic Lantern By Amos Emerson Dolbear · 1877
Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen By Barbara Maria Stafford, Frances Terpak, Isotta Poggi, J. Paul Getty Museum
Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry by Michael Glover Smith and Adam Selzer
The science of vision; or, Natural perspective ... constituting the basis of the art of design, with ... the new optical laws of the camera obscura, or daguerrèotype, also the physiology of the human eye ..by Arthur Parsey
Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media History by Benoît Turquety
At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma
