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Review: Magic Lantern Shows Were Cinema Before Movies

Some lanternists believed that film was a fad their medium would easily survive.

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Joseph Boggs Beale | John Libbey Publishing
(John Libbey Publishing)

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.