Sad Fact Sunday Magic Lantern

Film projectors have been around longer than you may know. Known as magic lanterns, they go as far back as the 16th century. Let's learn a little more about their origin and hoe they were the predecessor to the modern theatrical experience.
Further reading
Before the Movies: American Magic Lantern Entertainment and the Nation's First Great Screen Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale
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This is an excellent channel.

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Watching the House of wax a 3D movie with Vincent Price was my first experience with 3D thank you for sharing

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Thank you for making this 😃 It would be interesting to know how good a projector you could make based on maybe pre nineteenth century technology and improvements hereof (of a kind that wouldn't constitute a higher level innovation; so based only on variation/optimization of existing technology applying current - modern day - knowledge). And then see it realized of course.

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There are magic lantern collectors and clubs that might have already answered that. They are quite avid ❤️