running-horse-lantern

content/resources/av-timeline/index.md

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 It is also important to note that most of this list is compiled from the perspective of working as an audiovisual artist in Finland by a person educated in Finland and Canada. I very warmly welcome perspectives and suggestions from a non-western point of view.
 
+## 1200s
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+- ~1290 or earlier, [走马灯/走馬燈](https://web.archive.org/web/20191202065903/http://hk.chiculture.net/0811/html/c36/0811c36.html) ("running-horse-lantern", similar to laterna magica) was documented in the writing of《武林舊事》:"..It looks like shadow puppets, where there are running horses and people spinning like about to fly...「……若沙戲影燈，馬騎人物，旋轉如飛。……」"
+
 ## 1600s
 
 - 1659, Christiaan Huygens, credited as the inventor of the Magic Lantern (Lanterna Magica)