| Description |
xxx, 546 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Exeter studies in film history |
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Exeter studies in film history.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: PART ONE - The dreams of the eye -- CHAPTER 1 - Dark rooms and magic mirrors -- CHAPTER 2 - Light in the darkness -- CHAPTER 3 - The 'Lantern of Fear' tours the world -- PART TWO - Triumphant illusions -- CHAPTER 4 - Magie Lumineuse in the country and the city -- CHAPTER 5 - 'Life and Motion' The eighteenth-century lantern slide -- CHAPTER 6 -The Phantasmagoria -- CHAPTER 7 - From Panarama to Daguerreotype -- PART THREE - 'The pencil of nature' -- CHAPTER 8 - The Pirouette of the dancer -- CHAPTER 9 - The 'vital question' resolved? -- CHAPTER 10 - Great Expectations -- CHAPTER 11 - The Magic Lantern: A Sovereign and her subjects -- PART FOUR - Inscribing Movement -- CHAPTER 12 - The passage of Venus and the galloping horse -- CHAPTER 13 - Marey releases the dove -- CHAPTER 14 -The big wheel of little mirrors -- CHAPTER 15 - Edison and his 'films through the keyhole' -- CHAPTER 16 - The labourers of the eleventh hour -- APPENDIX A: Museums displaying interesting items relating to the history of 'pre-cinema' media. -- APPENDIX B: Report of the scientists Jamin and Richer on the phantasmogirie of Robertson anf the Phantasmaparastasie of Clisorius (17 July - 2 August 1800). -- Select Bibliography |
| Summary |
"First published in French in 1995 and now translated into English, Laurent Mannoni's account is widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on the pre-cinema world, throwing light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth: a strange mixture of science, magic, art and deception."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Published in French as: Grand art de la lumière et de l'ombre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-537) |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- History.
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Lantern projection -- History.
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Cinematography -- History.
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| Author |
Crangle, Richard.
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| LC no. |
2003446274 |
| ISBN |
085989665X |
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085989567X hardcover |
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085989665X paperback |
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