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place of the pinhole, would sharpen the image.
A group of people in a darkened room, watching
images on a wall—thrown by a beam of light cutting
through the darkness—must have resembled a group
watching home movies. There was one difference: the
picture was upside down.
Presently the lens was being put in one side of a box
instead of in the wall of a room. Through mirrors the
image could be thrown on a glass screen in the box, and
seen right side up.
The box, still thought of as a small room, was called
a “dark room” or “camera obscura”. This camera could be
aimed at a landscape, street, garden party. A group of
people looking in amazement at the moving images in the
box may well have resembled a group watching television.
Magicians began using the device for mystification