The Comedy of Magic and the Visual Eff ects of the Pre-cinematography Era in the XIX Century in Chile
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Through the bibliographic review of newspapers, magazines and announcements posted during the XIX Century in Santiago and other Chilean cities, it can be seen that a number of plays and some artistic groups, mainly European theater companies, used pre-cinematographic effects on stage to show how theatrical sceneries linked to live magical transformations produced by light-projected optical effects. These plays were showed throughout the whole analyzed century. Optical effects led their scenery. This genre, considered as part of the end of European baroque, had as main foundation both stage machinery and stage magic. With time, these shows disappeared from the stages since they were assimilated by the optical language of Cinema
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