The Metamorphic Eye-Machine Volume I.I: Attractions & Aberrations in the Moving Image (1872-1909)

By The Nocturne Group

Since the late 19th century, film has been the ultimate medium by which to express and illuminate the darker, wilder recesses of man's imagination. An alchemical convergence of magic lantern experiments and new photographic technology led to the production of the very first moving images, including visual captures of magic, mystery, violence, cruelty, crime, sex, nudity, devilry and death.
THE METAMORPHIC EYE-MACHINE VOLUME I.I reveals a flickering carnival of attractions and aberrations, from the ground-breaking motion capture experiments conceived by Eadweard Muybridge in 1872, through the first protean film eruptions of Georges Melies in the 1890s, up to 1909 when Pathe Freres' documentary film of a quadruple beheading by guillotine led to some of the world's first significant impositions of screen censorship.
This volume references more than 2,000 films from all countries and reproduces more than 300 rare photographic images and illustrations, many newly unearthed from international film archives and never before published.

THE METAMORPHIC EYE-MACHINE is the ultimate multi-volume guide for those wishing to explore an alternative global history of the moving image in its inaugural decades - a history that reveals a wild, often disturbing and provocative world which includes Hollywood but also stretches far, far beyond.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840689005
• ISBN13: 9781840689006
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Deicide Press
• Length: 288 Pages