Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth.
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Part 1: The dreams of the eye: dark rooms and magic mirrors Light in the darkness The "Lantern of Fear" tours the world
Part 2: Triumphant illusions: magie lumineuse in the country and the city "Life and Motion" The 18th-century lantern slide The phantasmagoria From panorama to daguerreotype
Part 3: The pencil of nature": the pirouette of the dancer The "vital question" resolved? Great expectations The magic lantern - a sovereign and her subjects
Part 4: Inscribing movement: the passage of Venus and the galloping horse Marey releases the dove The big wheel of little mirrors Edison and his "films through the keyhole" The labourers of the eleventh hour Appendices: Museums displaying interesting items relating to the history of "pre-cinema" media Report of the scientists Jamin and Richer on the phantasmagorie of Robertson and the Phantasmaparastasie of Clisorius (17 July - 2 August 1800)
