Stage Flying: 431 B.C. To Modern Times
McKinven, John A.
Meyerbooks
The theatrical effect of a human flying is a scenic wonder. It began in religious plays, continued in church celebrations, and has had a place in a host of theatrical forms — opera, the fairy play, vaudeville, melodrama, pantomime and spectacle. The apparatus for staging flight has taken its place among a host of other stage machines intended to illustrate a play's story.
Stage Flying surveys the long history of when and how stage mechanics have simulated flying.
Pages: 102 - 7" x 10" - Hardcover - Dust jacket - Black and White Illustrations