Long Distance Wireless Photography (1908) Georges Méliès

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration and projects a painting of three women onto a large screen; suddenly the women begin to move. The customers are impressed. First the women sits in the special seat: she s projected onto the screen, and her good nature comes out in the laughing image. Then it s the man s turn, but on the screen it projects a painted, apelike Friar Tuck face. The man