Movies and TvShows featuring "magic-lantern-projector" theme.

Let Joy Reign Supreme is a period drama film set in 18th century France, featuring a story revolving around scandal, conspiracy, and the struggle for power. The film follows the life of Philippe d'Orleans, the regent of France, as he navigates the treacherous court politics, faces false accusations, and deals with various challenges including illness and the threat of betrayal. With its depiction of the corrupt and decadent French court, the movie explores themes of greed, cruelty, and the fight for freedom.

Sweet Land is a romantic drama film that takes place in a rural area of Minnesota during the 1920s. It follows a German-American mail-order bride who faces prejudice and challenges as she arrives in a small farming community. The film explores themes of love, morality, social issues, and the struggles of immigrants during that time.

Rabbit's Moon is a 1950 short film directed by Kenneth Anger. It tells the story of a clown who is in love with the moon and embarks on a dreamlike journey to find love. The film combines elements of drama, fantasy, and avant-garde techniques.

In this silent film, a mischievous boy staying at a boarding house causes trouble with a magic lantern projector, a tennis game, and a jealous husband. Hilarity ensues as the landlady tries to control the situation.

A 100 year history of the development of movie marketing, reflecting technical improvements, audience taste and cultural sensibilities.

Georges Méliès (1861-1938), cinema pioneer. A first-person narration traces Méliès' early interests in drawing and magic shows. He builds a studio and constructs his own camera-projector, recruits dancers from the opera and actors from the cinema to make a variety of films that tell whole stories: histories, dramas, documentaries, and ads. He moves from farce into sophisticated comedies, developing cinematic tricks (dissolves, split screens, and double exposure) to create artificially-arranged scenes. Then, the cinema passes him by, and he lives the last years of his life in poverty, selling toys out of a shop near the Montparnasse train station, with Jeanne d'Alcy his star.