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Subject: Dead Media Working Note 01.8
Dead Media: Magic Lanterns, Photography, Optical Toys and Early
Cinematic Devices
(((commentary in triple parens by bruces_AT_well.com (Bruce Sterling) )))
(((This bibliography, drawn from various sources, makes no pretense at
completeness. Further submissions and corrections are welcome. This
list does demonstrate the great extent of the topic, and it offers many
glowing opportunities for research, especially for the growing numbers of
Dead Media Lurkers in Europe. If you can hack Latin, German and/or French
and you haunt used bookstores, do think of the rest of us and write us
some working notes. I must apologize for the lack of accents and umlauts
in ASCII.)))
Alhazen (Ibn al Haitam): Opticae Thesaurus Alhazen Arabis. Basel, 1572
(((earliest known work on the camera obscura. Alhazen died 1038 AD)))
Allister, Ray: Friese-Greene. Close-up of an Inventor. London, 1848
(((British cinema-projection pioneer and crank -- "must be read with
caution")))
Bardeche, Maurice and Brasillach, Robert: Histoire du Cinema. English
translation New York, 1938 (((original date of French publication
unknown)))
Blum, Daniel: A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen. New York, 1953
Bode, Walter: Das Kleine Filmlexikon. Ein Taschenbuch uber das gesamte
Filmwesen. Frankfurt and Vienna, 1954
Bossert, H and Guttman, H.: Aus der Fruhzeit der Photographie 1840-70,
ein Bildbuch nach 200 Originalen. Frankfurt, 1930.
Brunel, Georges: La Photographie pour tous. Paris, 1894
Cameron, J. R.: Sound Motion Pictures. Cameron Publishing Company, 1959
Ceram. C. W.: Archaeology of the Cinema. Harcourt, Brace and World, New
York (1964?) (((a fine work with an excellent bibliography)))
Coe, Brian: The History of Movie Photography. Eastview Editions,
Westfield NJ, 1981 (((a highly informative and also very pretty book)))
Cornwell-Clyde. A.: 3-D Kinematography. Hutchinson, London, 1954
Croy, Homer: How Motion Pictures are Made. London, 1899
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande: Histoire et description des procedes du
daguerrotype et du diorama. Paris, 1839
Deslandes, Jacques: Histoire Comparee du Cinema, Vol. 1, Casterman, 1966
Demeny, Georges Emile Joseph: Les Origines du cinematographe. Paris,
1909
Dickson, W. K. L. and Dickson, A: History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope
and Kinetophonograph. London, 1895
Dost, Wilhelm: Vorlaufer der Photographie. Beitrag zur allgemeinen
Geschichte der Photographie. Berlin, 1931
Dost, Wilhelm and Stenger, Erich: Die Daguerrotype in Berlin 1839-1860.
Berlin, 1922
Duca, Lo: Hippolyte Bayard, der erste Lichtbildkunstler. Paris, 1943
(((Bayard was a French treasury official and purportedly "the first
photographic artist," though completely overshadowed by Daguerre and
Niepce)))
Fescourt, Henry (ed.): Le Cinema des origines a nos jours. Paris, 1932
Fielding, Raymond (ed): A Technological History of Motion Pictures and
Television, University of California Press, 1967
Forch, Carl: Der Kinematograph und das sich bewegende Bild. Geschichte
und technische Entwicklung der Kinematographie bis zur Gegenwart.
Vienna and Leipzig, 1913
Fouque, Victor: La Verite sur l'invention de la photographie. Nicephore
Niepce, sa vie, ses essais, ses travaux. Paris, 1867
Freund, Gisele: Histoire de la photographie en France. Paris, 1935
Fulop-Miller, Rene: Die Phantasie-maschine. Eine Saga der Gewinnsucht.
Berlin-Vienna-Leipzig, 1931.
Gernsheim, H. and A.: L. J. M. Daguerre. The History of the Diorama and the
Daguerreotype. London, 1956.
Griffith, Richard and Mayer, A.: The Movies. The sixty-year story of the
world of Hollywood and its effect on America. From pre-Nickelodeon days
to the present. New York, 1957.
Grimoin-Sanson, Raoul: Le Film de ma vie. Paris 1926. (((Grimoin-Sanson
was the inventor of the Ballon-Cineorama, a ten-projector, audience-
surrounding virtuality system that premiered at the Paris Exhibition of
1900)))
Guyot, Abbe: Nouvelles Recreations physiques et mathematiques. Paris,
1770 (((optical toys?)))
Hendricks, Gordon: The Edison Motion Picture Myth. Berkeley and Los
Angeles, 1961. (((Champions W.K.L Dickson against Edison as a "pioneer."
Might have interesting dirt on Edison's purported "goon squads," who are
said to have threatened the lives of French cinematographe salesmen)))
Hepworth, Cecil M.: The ABC of Cinematography. London, 1897
Hepworth, Cecil M.: Came the Dawn. Memories of a Film Pioneer. London,
1951 (((Hepworth was the son of a famous magic-lanternist, worked on
Paul's Theatrograph and invented several cinematic lighting and
developing devices)))
Hooper, William: Rational Recreations. London, 1774 (((Magic lanterns)))
Hopwood, H. V.: Living Pictures. Their History, Photo-Production and
Practice Working. London, 1899
Jeanne, Rene and Ford, Charles: Histoire encyclopedique de cinema. Paris,
1947
Kircher, Athanasius: Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae. Rome, 1646; Amsterdam,
1671, etc (((first known description of the magic lantern. Apparently
Father Kircher had a rather vague idea of how the device worked and was
repeating what conjurers and tregetours may have known for centuries;
see Dead Media Working Note 0.02)))
Kubnick, Henri: Les freres Lumiere. Paris, 1936. (((Justly famed early
filmmakers and inventors of the Lumiere cinematographe)))
Liesegang, F. Paul: Marey, der Begrunder der modernen Kinematographie.
Dusseldorf, 1910 (((Etienne-Jules Marey, a physiologist studying animal
movement, invented the "fusil chronophotographique" and the
"chronophotographe")))
Liesegang, F. Paul: Lichtbild und Kinotechnik. Munchen-Gladbeck, 1913
Liesegang, F. Paul (ed.): Die Projektionskunst und die Darstellung von
Lichtbildern. Mit einer Anleitung zum Malen auf Glas und Beschreibung
chemischer, magnetischer, optischer und elektrischer Experimente.
Leipzig, 1909
Londe, Albert: La Photographie Moderne. Paris, 1895
Low, Rachel and Manvell, Roger: The History of the British Film. in three
volumes, 1949-1950
Marey, Etienne Jules: Le Mouvement. Paris, 1894 (((may be a scholarly
treatise on physiology rather than a description of his proto-cinema
laboratory equipment)))
Mayer, J.P.: British Cinemas and their Archives. London, 1948
Melies, Georges: Mes memoires. (date?) (((The memoirs of the father of
science fiction film, the "Roi de la Fantasmagorie" and the "Jules Verne du
Cinema," are said to be highly inaccurate)))
Musschenbroek, Pieter van: Physicae experimentalis. Leyden, 1729
(((Musschenbroek, a Dutch mathematician, theorized that overlapping glass
plates, subjected to a beam of light, could show animated movements; he
may have built such a device)))
Newhall, Beaumont: The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present
Day. New York, 1949
Noverre, Maurice: Emile Reynaud, sa vie et ses travaux. Brest, 1926
(((Reynaud invented the Praxinoscope, an optical toy, and also the Theatre
Optique and the Cabinet Fantastique, machines that manipulated strips of
film with animated drawings)))
Pathe, Charles: Souvenirs et conseils d'un parvenue. Paris, 1926 (((the
self-proclaimed upstart was the world's first true cinema tycoon)))
Peck and Snyder: Catalog (aka "Price List of
Out & Indoor Sports and Pastimes") 1886, reprinted 1971
by Pyne Press (LC# 75-24886, ISBN 0-87861-094-4) (((a period catalog
offering many optical and electrical toys and devices)))
Porta, Giovanni Battista Della: Magia naturalis, sive de miraculis rerun
naturalium. Naples, 1558 (((describes the "deviltries" of the camera
obscura)))
Potonniee, Georges: Histoire de la decouverte de la photographie. Paris,
1925
Potonniee, Georges: Les Origines du cinematographe. Paris, 1928
Quigley, Jr., Martin: Magic Shadows, the Story of the Origin of Motion
Pictures. Washington DC, 1948
Ramsaye, Terry: A Million and One Nights. New York, 1926. (((said to be
"the most original work on international cinema history" and "a real
classic")))
Robert (Robertson), Etienne Gaspard: Memoires recreatifs, scientifiques
et anecdotiques du Physicien-Aeronaute. Paris, 1831. (((Robert aka
"Robertson" was a phantasmagoria entrepreneur and magic lanternist; his
daring lantern show made him the victim of political censorship)))
Rotha, Paul and Manvell, Roger: Movie-Parade 1888-1949, a Pictorial
Survey of World Cinema. London and New York, 1950
Sadoul, Georges: Histoire de l'art du cinema des origines a nos jours.
Paris 1949 (((A four-volume work said to be very thorough and
complete)))
Sears and Roebuck: Consumers Guide Catalogue No. 110, 1900, reprinted
1970 by DBI Books, Northfield, IL. (((features magic lanterns, optigraphs
and stereopticons, as well as graphophones and toy telegraphs)))
Talbot, Frederick A.: Moving Pictures: How they are made and worked.
London, 1912
Taylor, Deems: A Pictorial History of the Movies. New York, 1943. (((is
this author also the narrator of Walt Disney's Fantasia?)))
Thomas, David B.: The Origins of the Motion Picture. HMSO, London, 1964
Thorndyke, Lynn: History of Magic and Experimental Sciences. New York,
1923 (((magic lanterns?)))
Vivie, Jean: Traite general de technique du cinema. 1. Historique et
developpement de la technique cinematographique. Paris, 1946
Zahn, Johannes: Occulis Artificialis 1685 (((Zahn invented the table-
mounted magic lantern; he used it as an automatic wind-direction
indicator by hooking it to a weathervane in the roof)))
Zglinicki, Friedrich von: Der Weg des Films. Berlin, 1956 (((said to
feature "proverbial German thoroughness" and to "cover the subject with
prodigious industry." Would that we could all do likewise *8-) )))
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