Cook Olive. Movement in Two Dimensions

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1963. — A study of the animated and projected pictures which preceded the invention of cinematography.A showman in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, who styles himself 'Master of the Motions', gives a performance with puppets of The ancient modem History ofHero and Leander. 'Do you play it according to the printed Book?' he is asked, and replies: 'By no means, Sir... A better way, Sir, that is too learned and poetical for our Audience: What, do they know what Hellespont is? guilty of true Love's Blood? or what Abidos is? or the other, Sestos height?' 'Th'art i' the right,' rejoins the other, adding, although he is a gentleman from Harrow who claims to have read the book in question: 'I do not know myself The showman goes on to say: 'I have only made it a little easie and modern for the Times, Sir, that's all. As for the Hellespont, I imagine our Thames here; and then Leander I make a Dyer's son about Puddle-Wharf, and Hero a wench o'the Bank-side, who going over one morning to Old Fish Street Leander spies her land at Trig Stairs, and falls in Love with her. Now do I introduce Cupid, having Metamorphos'd himselfinto a Drawer, and he strikes Hero in love with a Pint of Sherry.'Mirrors and Magic
Peepshows and Panoramas
Far Eastern Shadows
Karagoz
The Chinese Shades
Dissolving Views
Living Models
The Persistence of Vision