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Marco Tempest’s incredible digital tanagra depicting Nikola Tesla’s life:

Hugely popular in the early 20th century, tanagra theater thrilled audiences by using a series of mirrors to transform the image of an actor offstage and project a tiny version onstage. Tempest felt that tanagra theater offered the perfect visual sleight-of-hand to introduce audiences to the sad story of Nikola Tesla.

After watching the video, be sure to read how Tempest and his team crafted the illusion.

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