The great art of light and shadow : archaeology of the cinema
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
University of Exeter Press, Exeter, Devon, 2000
History
xxx, 546 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780859896658, 9780859895675, 085989665X, 085989567X
44562210
Part one: The dreams of the eye. Dark rooms and magic mirros
Light in the darkness
The lantern of fear tours the world
Part two: Triumphant illusions. Magic lumineuse in the country and the city
Life and motion: the eighteenth-century lantern slide
The phantasmagoria
From panorama to daguerrotype
Part three: the pencil of nature. The pirouette of the dancer
The vital question resolved
Great expectations
The magic lantern: a soverign and her subjects
Part four: 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
Translated from the French