I had a very confused trail leading from the Turk to Melies and the first motion pictures, via an American stage magician, Maskelyne's Egyptian Hall, and Pepper's Ghost, but I had to junk it because it didn't make any sense even to me.
Well that would have been a neat trip, but I can see that the column, which was swell of course, was full up already. Have you ever done anything with the mechanist John Merlin? Seems like a natural. I love the image of him roller-skating through 1790s London, giving people electrical shocks.
But the Maskelynes have not escaped me -- I'll get them, with their astronomy and their invisible battleships and their whist-playing, poetry-writing robots.
Not to mention vanishing the Suez Canal and being a bunch of islands in the South Pacific for some reason.
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:29 pm (UTC)Well that would have been a neat trip, but I can see that the column, which was swell of course, was full up already. Have you ever done anything with the mechanist John Merlin? Seems like a natural. I love the image of him roller-skating through 1790s London, giving people electrical shocks.
But the Maskelynes have not escaped me -- I'll get them, with their astronomy and their invisible battleships and their whist-playing, poetry-writing robots.
Not to mention vanishing the Suez Canal and being a bunch of islands in the South Pacific for some reason.