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Lantern slides


 
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The ancestors of the cinema. These hand-painted and photographic glass slides projected distant worlds and moral tales onto the walls of darkened theaters and Victorian parlors, creating the first mass-media spectacles.

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Contents

Introduction
1Magic lantern slides
Types of lantern slides
2Mechanical magic lantern slides
3Phantasmagoria
Examples
4Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt
5Frederick York: Lantern slides: London Zoological Gardens (1870)
6Bamforth & Co.: The Quarryman's Resolve (1900)
7Magic lantern slides from Japan
8Lantern slides of Uganda (ca. 1890s)
9Lantern slides of Ellis Island (New York)
10Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment

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