The Haunting World of Pre-Cinema Moving Images

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Make sure you check out Harry’s next time you’re at your local retailer such as Target or Costco, and let me know what you pick up! 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! Find some optical toys here: https://illusionshop.bg/en/category/229/antique-toys.html Buy my graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun: https://www.kazrowe.com/comics/cahun https://shop.getty.edu/products/liberated-the-radical-art-and-life-of-claude-cahun-978-1947440074 Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Captioning by Transcription, Ho! Captioning Services Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicvideoassist Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1003635-REG/olympus_v314060bu000_m_zuiko_digital_ed.html Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/portable-ssd-t5-2tb-mu-pa2t0b-am/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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