Edgar Degas Beach Scene

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walked further along the bench, where another box
stood with its back panel open. This time a cageful of sluggishlooking lizards blinked mournfully at Victor.
‘We ain’t Victor prodded the picture box thoughtfully.
‘Well, all right,’ he said. ‘So you get lots of little pictures. And you wind them fast. So we ought to see a blur, but we don’t.’
‘Ah,’ said Gaffer, tapping the side of his nose. ‘Handlemen’s Guild secret, that is. Handed down from initiate to initiate,’ he added importantly. very happy with this,’ said Gaffer, ‘but it’s the best we can do. Your basic salamander, see, will lie in the desert all day, absorbing light, and when it’s frightened it excretes the light again. Self-defence mechanism, it’s called. So as the film goes past and the shutter here clicks backwards and forwards, their light goes out through the film and these lenses here and on to the screen. Basically very simple.’ ‘How do you make them frightened?’ said Victor. ‘You see this handle?’ ‘Oh.’