Magic Shadows
by Martin Quigley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Quigley, Martin, 1917-2011
- Title
- Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TR: Technology: Photography
- Subject
- Motion pictures -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 64578
- Release Date
- February 16, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MAGIC SHADOWS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.FOREWORD
- 5.INTRODUCTION
- 6.IT STARTED WITH “A”
- 7.II FRIAR BACON’S MAGIC
- 8.III DA VINCI’S CAMERA
- 9.IV PORTA, FIRST SCREEN SHOWMAN
- 10.V KEPLER AND THE STARS
- 11.VI KIRCHER’S 100th ART
- 12.VII POPULARIZING KIRCHER’S PROJECTOR
- 13.VIII MUSSCHENBROEK AND MOTION
- 14.IX PHANTASMAGORIA
- 15.X DR. PARIS’ TOY
- 16.XI PLATEAU CREATES MOTION PICTURES
- 17.XII THE BARON’S PROJECTOR
- 18.XIII THE LANGENHEIMS OF PHILADELPHIA
- 19.XIV MAREY AND MOVEMENT
- 20.XV EDISON’S PEEP-SHOW
- 21.XVI FIRST STEPS
- 22.XVII WORLD PREMIERES
- 23.Appendix I MAGIC SHADOWS A Descriptive Chronology
- 24.Appendix II BIBLIOGRAPHY and Acknowledgements
- 25.Index
- 26.Transcriber’s Notes
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