The Magician and the Cinema y Erik Barnouw

 

Oxford University Press, 1981.

 

Barnouw shows that throughout the nineteenth century, magicians had astonished audiences with optical illusions based on the secret use of magic lanterns. Magicians transferred to film some of their celebrated illusions: baffling disappearances, metamorphoses, and beheadings.  128 pages and is illustrated throughout.

 

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