was invented in 1645 by Althanasius Kircher. Somewhat like a slide projector, the magic lantern could project enlarged drawings on a wall. A straight strip of pictures would be moved through the magic lantern to tell a story.
Pantamagoria, the first magic lantern theater, opened in Paris in 1794 to great aclaim.
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