SHADOWS IN A PHANTOM EYE, VOLUME 3 (1914-1916)

Since the late 19th century, film has been the ultimate medium by which to express and illuminate the darker, wilder recesses of man's imagination. An alchemical convergence of magic lantern experiments and new photographic technology led to the production of the very first moving images, including visual captures of magic, mystery, violence, cruelty, crime, sex, nudity, devilry and death.

SHADOWS IN A PHANTOM EYE is an extensive and unprecedented 15-volume book series for those wishing to explore an alternative global history of the moving image in its inaugural decades - a history that reveals a wild, often disturbing and provocative world which includes Hollywood but also stretches far, far beyond.

SHADOWS IN A PHANTOM EYE Volume 3 reveals a flickering carnival of attractions and aberrations from 1914 through 1916, a period which saw such landmarks as on-screen nudity, the definitive cliff-hanger movie serial Perils Of Pauline, the genesis of the historical epic with the Italian productions Quo Vadis? and Cabiria, and the very first film incarnation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. This volume references more than 2,000 films from all countries and reproduces around 280 rare photographic images and illustrations, many newly unearthed from international film archives and never before published.