Camille Silvy

Leonard Freed

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Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies: Cinema of the Enlightenment calligraphy Camille SilvyLaurence Chatel de Brancion Louis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. Beginning in 1783 he painted a series of panoramas on translucent paper that became a popular source of entertainment at royal court gatherings. These rolled up transparencies (rouleaux transparents) were cranked through a backlit viewing box, and the "moving pictures" were accompanied by live storytelling that gave spectators the