Word: radok
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laterna Magika is a marriage of drama, music and movies, and it develops both the hoopla and the problems of the ménage a trois. Invented by two clever Czechs named Alfred and Emil Radok, Laterna Magika is presented on a split-level stage surrounded and intersected by movie screens: wide screens, narrow screens, square screens, round screens-one, two, five, ten, thirteen screens illuminated by three projectors projecting several pictures at the same time and the whole gazingstock accompanied by a skull-splitting roar of stereophonic sound...
Only in America. In 1918, the great Sergei Eisenstein produced a show in Russia that combined stage and cinema, and in the '30s a theater project of the WPA did a similar experiment on Broadway. Then the hybrid form remained dormant until two brothers named Emil and Alfred Radok developed it into Laterna Magika, starting in 1948. They mainly saw it, says Emil, "as a means to add new interpretations and new dimensions to already existing works, and as a real possibility for creating entirely new works...
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