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Thank You, Mr. Robertson

Pierre Levie

1985

  • Documentary
7.5

A glimpse of the pre-history of cinema starting with the projections of Etienne Gaspard Robert (also known as M. Robertson), who used magic lanterns and other optical illusions to develop the genre of the Gothic phantasmagoria in the late eighteenth century.

Cast & crew

  • Pierre LevieDirector
  • Alexandre von SiversRobertson

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