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    combinations of fantastic, bizarre, or imagined imagery. From French phantasmagorie, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + possibly either...
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    similar to advertisements and handbills that also described the show. A "Phantasmagorie" by Paul Filidort in Paris was first advertised on 16 December 1792...
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    precursors of film. In 1799, Étienne-Gaspard "Robertson" Robert moved his Phantasmagorie show to an abandoned cloister near the Place Vendôme in Paris. The eerie...
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    Cagliostro had fooled their audiences. As "Paul Filidort," he presented his Phantasmagorie in Paris From December 1792 to July 1793, probably using that term for...
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    early 19th century. Robert probably attended one of Paul Philidor's Phantasmagorie shows in Paris in 1792 or 1793. In 1790 in Vienna, Philidor had turned...
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    Herzmanovsky-Orlando im Kontext. Vienna 2004. Monika von Gagern: Ideologie und Phantasmagorie Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlandos. Munich 1972. Gregor Gatscher-Riedl:...
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