Stereoscopy on the silver screen: the analyticon and early cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland
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2020
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The Modern Marvel Company was incorporated in Edinburgh in 1897, with a remit to educate and entertainment. Building on the wider
popularisation of science and radical changes in pedagogy, the company exploited various optical technologies to fulfil an ideal of universal
education. The cinematograph and the Analyticon regularly shared the same bill; the latter was a stereoscopic technology built upon the
principle of polarised light that depended upon a silver screen to work. Within the context of Edinburgh, stereoscopy directed shaped the
ideological and aesthetic character of early cinema. This paper adopts tropes of traditional technological history by detailing the Analyticon’s
technical workings, but it also adopts the principles of New Cinema History by situating this technology within a nuanced social context. In
doing so, this paper offers a fuller understanding of early cinema’s aesthetic, social and cultural significance in Edinburgh, and its relationship
with the wider visual culture of the 1890s.
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AUDIOVISUAL, CULTURA VISUAL, HISTÓRIA DO CINEMA, ESTEREOSCOPIA, VISUAL CULTURE , HISTORY OF CINEMA, STEREOSCOPY