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Review: Magic Lantern Shows Were Cinema Before Movies
Some lanternists believed that film was a fad their medium would easily survive.
Jesse Walker | From the November 2026 issue
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Magic lantern shows, in which live performers build stories around projected images, were a once-popular, now-half-forgotten precursor to modern movies. In........