Editing William Friese-Greene (section)

===Experiments with magic lanterns===
In Bath he came into contact with [[John Arthur Roebuck Rudge]]. Rudge was a scientific instrument maker who also worked with electricity and [[magic lantern]]s to create popular entertainments.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.victorian-cinema.net/rudge |title=John Arthur Roebuck Rudge |access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> Rudge built what he called the Biophantic Lantern, which could display seven photographic slides in rapid succession, producing the illusion of movement.<ref>{{Cite web 
|url=http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/catalogues/appareils/collection/lanterne-de-projectionap-94-33.html |title=The Biophantic Lantern |website=Catalogue des appareils cinématographiques de la Cinémathèque française et du CNC |access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> It showed a sequence in which Rudge (with the invisible help of Friese-Greene) apparently took off his head.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Domankiewicz |first=Peter |date=25 November 2024 |title=William Friese-Greene & The Art of Collaboration |journal=Early Popular Visual Culture |volume=22|issue=3 |pages=218–247 |doi=10.1080/17460654.2024.2428487 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Friese-Greene was fascinated by the machine and worked with Rudge on a variety of devices over the 1880s, various of which Rudge called the Biophantascope.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Collection Will Day: les débuts du cinéma anglais |journal=1895, revue d'histoire du cinéma |volume=1997 |pages=162, 163}}</ref> Moving his base to London in 1885, Friese-Greene realised that glass plates would never be a practical medium for continuously capturing life as it happens. Hence he began experiments with the new Eastman paper roll film, made transparent with castor oil, before turning his attention to experimenting with [[celluloid]] as a medium for motion picture cameras.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celluloid and photography, part 3: The beginnings of cinema |date=17 November 2012 |url=https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/celluloid-and-photography-part-3-the-beginnings-of-cinema/ |publisher=[[National Science and Media Museum]] blog |access-date=1 May 2020}}</ref>