ABSTRACT
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PROJECTION Some forms of projection have been around since the beginning of time-images of shadows from around a campfire or the Indonesian art of shadow puppetry have existed for hundreds if not thousands of years. However, much about projection remained mostly theory until the 1900s due to a lack of sophistication in optics and light sources. Although designers understood the potential for using light as a major element of a setting, they didn’t have the means to produce it in a way that could be considered successful. Scenographers like Adolphe Appia, Edward Gorden Craig, and Robert Edmund Jones saw the potential for using light and projection as significant elements of their designs and rendered them into their sketches and renderings but, had no way of producing the effects that they felt were so central to their designs.
