A History of Pre-cinema, Volume 2Stephen Herbert Taylor & Francis, 2000 - 525 pages This set reprints together for the first time rare and essential material on the history of pre-cinema.Volume 1: Olive Cook, Movement in Two Dimensions [1963]. Volume 2 features the first facsimile reprinting of the often-overlooked "British Journal of" "Photography," Volume 3 is comprised of a selection of articles originally published between 1827-1861. |
Contents
Picture Book for Little Children extract The Religious Tract Society n d | 3 |
Edisons Invention of the KinetoPhonograph Antonia and W K L Dickson | 13 |
The panorama | 21 |
The diorama | 79 |
Magic mirrors | 129 |
Shadowplay | 151 |
Magic lanterns | 165 |
753 | 211 |
OBJECTIVES | 314 |
THE PYKOHYDROGEN LIGHT | 323 |
PHOTOMETRY | 335 |
559 | 354 |
59 | 356 |
DANCERS LANTERN | 364 |
BEECHEYS LANTERN | 371 |
81 | 378 |
Magic Lanthorn and Phantasmagoria Magazine of Science 20 April | 213 |
Chinese or Artificial FireWorks Magazine of Science 21 December 1839 | 221 |
Objects for the OxyHydrogen Microscope Magazine of Science | 229 |
Dissolving Views concluded The Mirror 19 February 1842 | 237 |
Scenes in a Magic Lantern J S Coyne Illustrated London News | 243 |
51 | 291 |
Transferred Prints for Magic Lantern J Martin Photographic News | 297 |
INTRODUCTION | 306 |
CARBON TRANSPARENCIES | 388 |
REGISTERING Carrier | 394 |
104 | 401 |
VIEWING PICTURES | 408 |
The Magic Lantern for Beginners Hobbies 18967 | 447 |
Peppers Ghost | 487 |
a selection of pieces from The Popular Educator Vols 5 and | 501 |
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