Thank You, Mr. Robertson

*7.5

Status

Released

Production

SODEP

Aired

1985-01-01

Thank You, Mr. Robertson

A glimpse of the pre-history of cinema starting with the projections of Etienne Gaspard Robert (also known as M. Robertson), who used magic lanterns and other optical illusions to develop the genre of the Gothic phantasmagoria in the late eighteenth century.