Bryony Dixon
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Darkest hour: the first ever film of a solar eclipse (opens the original)
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Film, like magic, combines art and science. Film is a highly technical medium, but perfect for delivering illusion. The pioneer filmmakers of the 1890s were quick to exploit stop-motion and the different uses of perspective and superimposition to create filmic magical tricks that were hard to produce on stage; and audiences loved them. It is no coincidence that many early filmmakers and showmen worked in magic theatres or were performing magicians: G.A. Smith, David Devant, Walter Booth, and in
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