Books on display in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
Athanasius Kircher S.J., Ars magna lucis et umbrae: in X. libros digesta [BDC EXEBD 14390]
The Cinema Museum also has a large collection of books, ephemera and artefacts on the history of magic lanterns, phantasmagoria, optical illusions, photography, Victorian magic and music hall performance, with many items relating to séances, Victorian occult activities, John Nevil Maskelyne and George Cooke’s magic shows at the House of Mysteries, the Egyptian Hall, rationalist ‘debunking’ of spiritualist sessions, and so on. These include a colour plate of ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ in:
Theodore Eckardt and A.H. Keane (trans.), Physics in pictures: the principal natural phenomena and appliances, described and illustrated by thirty coloured plates for ocular instruction in schools and families. London: Edward Stanford, 1882 [EXEBD 46147]
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