Full Description
Volume 3 of A History of Pre-Cinema contains a complete reprint of Olive Cook's book Movement in Two Dimensions. In it, the author carefully describes how each of the technologies worked, but she is more concerned with the aesthetic and cultural than the technical.
Contents
Movement in Two Dimensions, Olive Cook, Hutchinson, 1963: 1. Mirrors and Magic 2. Peepshows and Panoramas 3. Far Eastern Shadows 4. Karagöz 5. The Chinese Shades 6. Dissolving Views 7. Living Models 8. The Persistence of Vision.