1781. A miniature mechanical theatre with sophisticated lighting and sound effects. Very early movie making.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophusikon
Dr Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon
The stage on which the Eidophusikon was represented, was little more than six feet wide, and about eight feet in depth; yet such was the painter’s knowledge of effect and scientific arrangement, and the scenes which he described were so completely illusive, that the space appeared to recede for many miles, and his horizon seemed as palpably distant from the eye, as the extreme termination of the view would appear in nature.
https://vimeo.com/32698316
Recreation video.
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