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Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies: Cinema of the Enlightenment calligraphy and the author of ALaurence Chatel de Brancion Louis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. Beginning in 1783 he painted a series of panoramas on translucent paper that became a popular source of entertainment at royal court gatherings. These rolled up transparencies (rouleaux transparents) were cranked through a backlit viewing box, and the "moving pictures" were accompanied by live storytelling that gave spectators the