I can imagine being an audience member at one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797 because I’m a person who loves experiencing new things so I think it would be a nice experience to see what these Magic Lanterns are about. The emotion that would come out of me would be surprised and fear. Surprised because again I would be in awe at what I’m seeing but then the fear would come because I would be fearful at the demonistic beings I’m seeing being projected. I don’t mess with that stuff. I don’t want to allow that into my life, my space, or my mind. I don’t do it so I would definitely be fearful as well. An entertainment form that would bring up this same kind of emotions within me would be the cinema. Seeing a scary movie in theaters brings out the same emotion of shock and fear because it’s the adrenaline of fear a person gets when they get scared by a jump scare or some kind of “demonic being present” kind of scene. They’re different though because with the Magic Lanterns, you didn’t get a preview with what the movie would be about so the fear I would feel around the time of Magic Lanterns would be different than it is now, but the fear now a days is much more intense because animation and graphics are much more technically advanced then it was back then!
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