The late Bill Douglas, a Scottish director, made a film called COMRADES with
several characters introducing various pre-cinema devices. His work is little
known in the US and his films only seem to be available in Britain. He
collected pre-cinema materials and a museum housing his collection has a
website. See The Bill Douglas Center at:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/bill.douglas/what.html
Robert Goff
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