Dan North

The University of Exeter

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Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema'

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Dan North The University of Exeter

November 11, 2011
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Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema' trick film special effects illusion early cinema audience Curator's Note These trading cards were distributed by the Liebig Extract of Meat Company around 1910. Each picture illustrates the shootin ...

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[in]Transition

Unseen Screens: Eye Tracking, Magic and Misdirection

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Tessa Dwyer Monash University

September 05, 2017
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Review by
Sarah Thomas University of Liverpool

Dan North The University of Exeter

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Re: Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema'

Magic

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Dan North The University of Exeter

Saturday, November 12, 2011 — 4:48 pm
Exactly right, Michael. I've often used the magic trick as an analogy for filmic special effects (it's also more than that, as the histories of magic theatre and early film are neatly intertwined), stressing that magic is invariably sold on the ...
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Re: Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema'

The explanation

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Dan North The University of Exeter

Saturday, November 12, 2011 — 5:00 pm
Bob, I can always rely on you to take something I've written in a bit of a fug and then explain it to me in lucid terms. I'm also becoming more and more interested in a rhetoric of special effects, the framing discussions that orientate spectato ...