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including the invention of the magic lantern, the projection of photographic images, the motion picture, and eventually the synchronization of sound and film. The earliest research into image projection was Athanasius Kircher's work Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae, which described images being reflected onto a wall in a darkened room. Kircher described and illustrated his designs, intending to demystify the technology and effect for viewers of such apparatus.

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