Magic Lantern


The "Laterna Magica" ws an early type of image projector first developed in the mid 17th century. Painted pictures or photographs on small sheets of glass, were projected through a lens using a light source; intially a candle or oil lamp, but later brighter images were possible with the invention of the Argand lamp (1790s) and Arc lamp (1860s).

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Magic lantern at the Wymondham Museum.
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A view of the inside of a Magic Lantern from c.1890
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Three slide projector with dissolve transition (1886)
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Story about a boy falling in a barrel of honey.
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The Magic Lantern Theatre
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Charles Dickens and the Magic Lantern
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