Documentary

Thank You, Mr. Robertson

Name: Thank You, Mr. Robertson
Director: Pierre Levie
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1985-01-01
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Alexandre von Sivers

January 1, 1985

1h 17m

TMDB7.5· 2

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.