CINEMA TIP TOP FACTS!... The "magic lantern"

The magic lantern or laterna magica is an early type of image projector employing painted pictures or photographs on sheets of glass, a lens, and a bright light source. It was mostly developed in the 17th century and commonly used for entertainment purposes. It was increasingly applied to educational purposes during the 1800s and was in wide use until the mid-20th century, when a smaller-format version for photographs on film, marketed and commonly known as a slide projector, superseded it.
The mathematic Christian Huygens used it to show his phisic and astronomic schemes, mean while Étienne G. Robert projected monsters "throwing itselfs over the people"...







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