Becky asks, about that joak: "Why Bath?

[Mark Kohut]

1) the talking of waters? 2) Jane Austen lived there soon (unhappily?
or, just learned

3) William Friese-Greene experimented with celluloid and motion
pictures in his studio in the 1870s, developing some of the earliest
movie camera technology. He is credited as being the inventor of
cinematography.[117]
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