• Phantasmagoria OR DEATH IN THE PROJECTED IMAGES BEFORE THE INVENTION OF FILM
   
  • Phantasmagorie introduction part I
   
  • Phantasmagorie Introduction part II

• Other Ghost Show DEATH AND GHOSTS' IN THE THEATRE
   
  • Pepper's Ghost
     
  • Ghost Show Cabaret
    
     
• Optical Toys SCIENTIFIC AMUSEMENTS POPULARIZED THROUGH TOYS
   
  • Optical Toys introduction
   
  • Phenakistiscope & Stampfer discs
    
    
  • Joseph Plateau Introduction
     
  • The "Phenakistiscope collection" in the Science Museum (University Ghent)
     
  • Duboscq's Bioscope
     
  • Plateau's Anorthoscope
   
  • Anamorphoses
   
  • Stereoscopes
   
  • Choreutoscope
   
  • Magic Lanterns
    
    
  • Satire, Politics and the Magic Lantern
    
    
  • Early Magic Lantern Slides in the Folk-Art Museum, Ghent
   
  • Vue d' Optique

• Pre-Cinema Ephemera
  
  
• Newly made Optical Toys
   
• Research page Inquiries and search for more information
   

• Precursors THE SEARCH FOR "AUTOMATICAL DRAWING AND SCULPTERING"
   
  • Physionotrace
   
  • Photosculpture
    
    
  • Pioneer techniques in Early Photography

• Stereo-Photographs THE WORLD IN 3-D SEEN THROUGH THE STEREOSCOPE
   
  • Favourite stereo images
   
  • Stereo Autochromes
   
  • The Ghost in the Stereoscope
   
  • Diableries
     
    • Stereo-Diableries introduction
       
    • Stereo-Diableries / list as illustrated by Jac Remise
       
    • Stereo Diableries depicted in stereo
       
    • Other diableries seen in stereo (Not in the Jac Remise book)
       
    • Enlarged Diablerie list compiled by Denis Pellerin (only titles)
       
   
  • Nudes, Risque or a little more ...
     
    • Stereo albumin nudes
       
    • Jules Richard and his women in the garden and Atrium (nudes)
       
   
  • Cabaret Women The world of "risque" women

• Other Photographs
   
  • Vintage motorcars
    
    
  • Early aviation
    
    
  • Post-Mortem Photograph
     
  • Felix Bonfils The Orient - Views of Egypt - The Levant
     
  • Academic Nudes by Marconi & others
     
  • Stephen Sack (Contemporary photographs based on Magic Lantern slides)
     
  • Thomas Weynants (Contemporary photographs of your webmaster)
     
  • Research page Inquiries and search for more information
     

• Stereoscope Viewers
   
• Photo ephemera
   

• Early film
  
• Grand Théâtre Mécanique Morieux
  
  
• Mechanical Television Nipkov, Baird, Betty Bolton...
  'The man with the flower in his mouth'
   
• Conjuring Arts
   
• Danse Macabre des Homes et des Femmes
   
  • Grande Danse Macabre Introduction
     
  • Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes
     
  • Grande Danse Macabre des Femmes

• Death in Folk-Art
  
  
• Death and Humour in Early Visual Media