Somehow I've never noticed this before - on the facade of Macy's in NYC - on, I think, 34th: underneath the lamp bracket is a plaque saying that this is the site of Koster & Bial's Music Hall where, on April 23rd 1896, Thomas A. Edison, with the Vitascope, first projected a moving picture. Since I was on my way back from giving a talk on flash photography at the CUNY English Students' Association conference - where in the Q and A I'd talked about the links between spark photography and early time-lapse photography - effectively, the forerunner of the motion picture - this piece of illumination seemed quite apt.
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