Written by Martin Quigley

Magic Shadows - The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures

by Martin Quigley

The art of magic shadows, which just before the dawn of the twentieth century evolved into the modern motion picture, was born three centuries ago, at Rome. There Athanasius Kircher, a German priest, first showed his invention, the magic lantern, to friends, and enemies, at the Collegio Romano, where he was a professor of mathematics.The world prem..