Phantasmagoria

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One Man Is Bringing Magic Lantern Shows Back from the Dead
In a small Amish town, 'Professor Firefly' is reviving a lost art that once occupied the space of movies and TV.
Seung Lee
10.31.16
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Live Actors Didn’t Work for 90s Games. Can They Work for the New 'Guitar Hero'?
FMVs are back. Yay?
Zack Kotzer
4.16.15
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Phantasmagoria, the 18th Century Suicide-Scary Theaters That Gave Us Movies
Imagine: You’re in 18th century Europe in a candlelit shack watching skeletons magically dancing on the wall. How creepy it must have been.
Derek Mead
10.28.12

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The Movies Were Born In the Suicidally Scary Haunted Houses of the 19th Century
It sounds like the name of a terrible fantasy metal band, but it's so much cooler: Phantasmagoria was a type of spooky theatre that used a mobile magic lantern that projected images of skeletons and demons to scare audiences. Two and a half centuries...
Derek Mead
10.28.11