Full Description
A History of Pre-Cinema Volume 2 (and volumes 1 and 3) cover the optical devices used for entertainment and instruction that proliferated before the introduction of cinema. Volume 2 is divided into the following sections: Peepshows; The Panorama; The Diorama; Magic Mirrors; Shadowplay; Magic Lanterns; Pepper's Ghost; Recreative Science; Various Optical Devices.
Contents
Volume Two, Part 1 Peepshows, panoramas and dioramas, Part 2 Mirror projection, shadows, magic lanterns; Part 3 Various optical devices and effects
