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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.
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...
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