Thank you Michael. I recall yet another interesting reference and that is
in
Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road, 1955). Young
Apu and his sister Durga listen to their aunt telling them ghost stories at
night and then in a seqeunce we also see them marvelling at the peep-show
of the 'bioscopewallah' ... the wandering man who would go around villages;
while cranking and changing scenes he would also go on narrating stories,
sometime also additing musical score standing aside the box. This was
a very rudimentary bioscope, a precursor to the peep-show parlors that
had sprouted all over the United State and in Europe by about 1894.
Around 1870, Henry R Heyl projected photographs onto a screen in
Philadelphia's Academy of Music for a fairly large audience and he called
his machine the PHANTASMATROPE.
Amrit Gangar
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Chanan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 07 October 2000 21:26
Subject: RE: Phantasmagoria
>Wim Wenders... yes, of course, in 'Kings of the Road' there is a wonderful
>piece of shadow theatre, but it's not a period reconstruction. It happens
>before an audience of children in a cinema waiting for a film show when the
>two protaginists are behind the screen repairing the sound system and one
of
>them accidenetally turns on a light that casts their shadows on the screen
>from behind. It is, however, meant to evoke the prehistory of cinema...
>
>Michael Chanan
>
> http://www.mchanan.dial.pipex.com/chananhome.htm
>
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>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Amrit Gangar
>> Sent: 07 October 2000 07:10
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>> Subject: Re: Phantasmagoria
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>> In Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" we see the magic lantern show!
>> Maybe one of Wim Wenders' films ...
>>
>> Amrit
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sean Delgado <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 06 October 2000 20:15
>> Subject: Re: Phantasmagoria
>>
>>
>> >>I'm wondering if anyone on the list knows of a film (I'm thinking
mainly
>> of
>> >>fiction) that re-stages a late 18th century, early 19th
>> phantasmagoria or
>> >>other "ghost show" from the pre-photo era.
>> >See Woody Allens "midsummer nights sex comedy" In it one of the
>> characters
>> >has a zotrope(?) that eventually catches fire!
>>
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