Book : LANTERNE MAGIQUE ET FILM PEINT - 400 ans de Cinéma

A book by Laurent MANNONI (France) & Donata PESENTI CAMPAGNONI (Italy)
Preface by Francis Ford COPPOLA

This book was edited in conjunction with the exhibition "LANTERNE MAGIQUE ET FILM PEINT - 400 ans de Cinéma" presented at the Cinémathèque Française, from 14 October 2009 to 28 March 2010.

Strange box provided with a set of lenses and a kerosene lamp, the magic lantern was born in the mid-seventeenth century. Its role is to be projected in a dark room images painted on glass plates. With mechanical animation ever more sophisticated, the boundaries between reality and imagination disappear, and the public is increasingly fascinated - and frightened.

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CONTENTS

PRÉFACE

• Alberto BARBERA
  Museo Nazionale del Cinema
• Serge TOUBIANA
  Cinémathèque Française

AVANT-PROPOS

• Francis Ford COPPOLA

LES COLLECTIONNEURS DE LANTERNES MAGIQUES

• David ROBINSON

1 - LA "LANTERNE DE LA PEUR"

• Vie quotidienne
• Voyages
• Contes et Légendes

2 - LE SIECLE DES LUMIÈRES, de la lanterne et de la fantasmagorie

• Religion et Esotérisme
• Sciences et Enseignement
• Arts et Spectacles

3 - DE LA LANTERNE MAGIQUE AU CINÉMATOGRAPHE

• Érotisme
• Le monde à l’envers
• Fantômes
• Abstraction

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