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used a metal shadow figure with jointed parts to have the face of a young woman changing into that of a witch.

Some 19th century mechanical magic lantern slides produced changes to the appearance of figures. For instance a nose could grow to enormous size, simply by slowly sliding away a piece of glass with black paint that masked part of another glass plate with the picture.

Matched dissolves

In the first half of the 19th century "dissolving views"

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