Pre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Paul Burns, Pre Cinema Historian, Photographer, Author of THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY I post pre cinema history every day.
Allegory of the Cave
PlatoPre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴In his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ (Book 7) Plato alleges life is like being a prisoner chained and seeing only shadows dancing on a wall (cinema screen). These being caused by hidden performers no different than those who perform shadow plays or shades. https://t.co/6dvik5k8u4
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Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus
Mary ShelleyPre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴1910 EARLY BRONX FILM INDUSTRY Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus’ was placed on the screen by the Edison studio in the Bronx in 1910. She wrote Frankenstein while she was just 21. https://t.co/XdUAhaDNam
Paperback, 2008
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The Dance of Death
Hans HolbeinPre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴1659 This drawing by Christiaan Huygens from 1659, was inspired by a Hans Holbein woodblock cut from 1524+ called “The Dance of Death”. This drawing is the very representation of images that will appear through the lens of the ‘Magic Lantern’ in the 18th century. @ubleiden https://t.co/gZllvQYg5u
Paperback, 1971
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Last Leaf
Henry OPre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴FALLING LEAVES (1912) An Alice Guy Blaché Solax production from her leased Gaumont studio in Flushing NY. Based on O. Henry's ‘The Last Leaf’ from 4 years previous (1907). Magda Foy “the Solax Kid” is the child. Released 15 March. The Library of Congress. https://t.co/SNj2T9RlKy
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King Lear
William ShakespearePre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴KING LEAR (1909) Shakespeare’s play produced by the Vitagraph Company of America & directed by James Blackton & William Ranous. Released 27 March. Originally 16 mins (this copy runs 12:54). https://t.co/Vh1xrdwylV
Paperback, 2015
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