The Haunting World of Pre-Cinema Moving Images

Seriously, your fashion commitment is just as impressive as your thorough research, it's always so exciting to see your thematic garb. This is one of my favorite historical concepts!

Sorry, whatever I was doing. Kaz is back. You can wait

I wanna say, you can summon dead french monarchs as long as you then send them to hell lmao

As a former librarian, I DEEPLY appreciate how you make quotes very clear and cite sources at the end! You also seem to always cover some subject that I find fascinating. Thank you.

Thai southener here. Since you've mentioned Thai shadow puppets. In the central Thai they have 'Nang Yai', the life size shadow puppets. We have a southern version called Nang Talung Which is smaller and similar to the Malaysian and Indonesian ones. In the video, that's southern version. The performer posibly is Master Watee Subsin from Suchart Subsin Thai Shadow Puppets Museum, Well-known Nang Talung performer from Nakhon Si Thammarat. (my home town) We have quite deep history and culture with this type of art. Good laugh at the late night Nang Talung show is still prevalance this days. You could find Nang Talung at pretty much any occation, even at the funeral.

I’ve actually been to a magic lantern show (it was Christmas themed) it is very spooky and atmospheric in person! One of the segments was the Charles Dickens story The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton which was definitely very creepy and had scenes set in a graveyard. Magic lantern shows are cool I think society should bring them back as more of a thing!

Unrelated to this video, but I have made it my life's goal to be the kind of person that someone like Kaz would need to make a myth debunking video about.

I love that Tutter is just happily chilling in the background while Kaz gives us a lesson about the history of moving images.

My aunt had a thaumatrope necklace in about 1970. Each side of the disc (or more likely, heart-shape) had apparently random lines on it which, when one blew to spin the disc, spelled "I LOVE YOU". ❤

your demonstration of the zoetrope and its kin reminded me: paleologists have discovered some paleolithic cave paintings were done in such a way that when a single fire was lit, it created a moving image, eg a buffalo running. i mean its more animated related than cinema related, but its genuinely so fascinating that, as soon as we possibly could, we found ways to create moving images to enhance our storytelling (or because it looked sick as hell lmao). just!!! AHHHH, I LOVE HISTORY!! (and fantastic video as always 💕)

I will never not be struck by the fact aboriginal australians traditionally regard being photographed or regarded as having one's soul stolen. Like yeah, it is kinda.

I remember VIEW MASTER, toy of the 1970s, a plastic stereoscope for children, it was great fun and didn't need batteries.

that coat is gorgeous Kaz

I love the quality of your videos. The scene setting etc. It’s clear to me you put many hours into planning the backgrounds and lighting/outfits you use. Your talent is palpable. I’m so grateful I found your channel earlier last year. It’s one of my favorite things to watch when I want to relax. Your voice is very calming and your storytelling is fantastic!

Some of these devices bring back memories of a toy I had as a child; It looks like a red pair of binoculars, and you inserted a paper disk into the top. Then you would see all sorts of images (usually animals) through the binoculars! You moved the picture by clicking a little lever. I wish I could remember what that thing was called.

Taco Bell came out with a mirror box that showed an illusion of Yoda and Darth Vader. It was a Star Wars toy in the shape of a cube. Depending on how you moved it, you'd see either Darth Vader or Yoda. I still have it on my bookcase in my apartment. It's awesome. This episode made me think of it. So cool. It uses light refraction to create a full image of either character, depending on the angle of view.

I’m taking all these lessons to heart - especially the one about reading the room when performing to the French… 😂 Fascinating. It’s easy to look at these films with jaded eyes used to cgi horror and graphic detail on screen, but for complete new comers to the medium, it would have been amazing. It’s also kind of haunting to realise that the majority of human noises used in the backgrounds of movies or tv shows are the sounds made by long dead people - the laugh tracks, screams or chatter on recordings still commonly used… This video also reminded me of the recent theory about cave paintings - There’s a suggestion that the multi-limbed animals painted on the rock walls of caves were early attempts at optical illusions. It’s not so visible with steady torchlight, but in the flickering firelight, the uneven stone surface would make the images flicker and seem to move. It seems like we’ve always wanted to trick our own eyes. Wonder is a good thing to inspire, I guess!

Omg??? I just clicked on this so idek if it's mentioned in the vid but i JUST got out of a history of photo lecture about Etienne's Phantasmagoria and the magic lantern what the hell. Spooky stuff indeed the timing of this couldn't have been better lmao.. Kaz summoned by random art professor

I loved seeing all these devices not as pictures or secondhand videos but as stuff Kaz can actually interact with, it helps me understand how they work a bit better. Also oh my god that first outfit with all the embroidery

KR: "Welcome to my court..." Me: Wait, is Kaz of the Fey? Have I been inviting fey into my house through this modern magic lantern all this time?! Gol-darnit!!