Od sztuk widowiskowych do kina atrakcji, czyli o intermedialności triku filmowego
From Spectacle Art to The Cinema of Attraction, or The Intermedia Character of a Film Trick

Summary/Abstract: In his article, Dębski draws attention to the inter-media links of cinematography and its roots in the nineteenth-century culture of spectacles. By referencing the work of Tom Gunning, André Gaudreault, and Martin Loiperdinger, and analysing German and Wrocław based examples (eg Schenk’s Eden-Theater spectacles, plays of the Liebich’s theatre, Fiedler’s advertisements of magic lanterns), he shows the broad context of the beginnings of cinematography. He also points to the affinity of film tricks with “tricks” known from the older media (theater illusion, magic lantern, mechanical theater) and deconstructs the myth that Méliès invented the “first movie trick”. The author further emphasizes the richness and diversity of the early cinema of attraction, which was characterized by the “joy of experimentation”.

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