How wide should you cast the research net in early cinema studies? Working on my book about the British pioneer Robert Paul has thrown up some interesting challenges, and discoveries. One of the main problems – as with most early film work – is…

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Werner Nekes in Film Before Film. Reproduced from Media Magica I, directed by Werner Nekes (1986), DVD. Newer, more glamorous technologies still glimmer with mysterious and sensual ancestors. -Barbara Stafford, Devices of Wonder (2001) In a recent article published in The Moving Image, Meredith Bak…

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Birmingham, England, 28–30 April 2017—A Magic Lantern Convention is first and foremost a projected affair. As an event organized around a variety of lantern-based presentations—from entertainments, to scholarly research, to combinations of the two—its arguments happen on the screen. To the traditional features of a…

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Chers membres de Domitor, amis, passionnés de cinéma des premiers temps, ou simples visiteurs intéressés, Merci de visiter le nouveau site internet de Domitor, mis en ligne en ce mercredi 5 octobre 2016 lors de l’Assemblée Générale de l’association aux Giornate del Cinema Muto…

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Dear Domitor members, friends, early cinema aficionados, and interested passers-by, Thank you for visiting the new Domitor site, which goes live this week on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at the General Assembly at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, where Domitor was founded…

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