LANTERN SLIDES
	Catalogues Magical Effects Special Slides Various
	Catalogues These extensive catalogues show quite a lot of complete sets (click on the titles to view the slides).
	All British T Series Each square card board box contains a set of 12 magic lantern slides, 3.25 inch (8.2 cm) square. The text on the box reads 'Superior Coloured Slides, 12 in a Box'.
	Primus Junior Lecturers Series from W. Butcher & Sons The Junior Lecturers Series was produced by W. Butcher & Sons, London (1870-1906) under the trade name 'Primus'. The slides were sold as a set of eight in a cardboard box. Size of the slides: 8,3 x 8,3 cm (3 1/4" x 3 1/4"). Butcher also produced the Primus Projection Post Cards, manufactured from the same images as used on the slides.
	Projektion für Alle from Unger und Hoffmann From 1900 until 1928 the German manufacturer Unger & Hoffmann A.G. from Dresden put fifty-six sets of photographic lantern slides on the market called 'Projektion für Alle'. The subjects are much divided, from exotic countries to biblical history, from works of art to astronomy.
	Ensign Ltd magic lantern slides - Disney The George Houghton Company had been specializing in the manufacturing of optical devices for almost a century when it decided to launch a series of Disney magic lantern sets under the Ensign Ltd. brand.
	Magical effects Efforts to impart movement to the figures.
	Mechanical slides Of all the slides prepared for the magic lantern, those with mechanical effects prove the most interesting to persons of all ages. Special: Interchangeable Mechanical Slide (Benetfink)
	The mouse-eating-man The mechanical lantern slide with the mouse eater became a real classic. Read the unbelievable, terrifying and perhaps a little unappetizing story.
	Dissolving Views A common dissolving view is the change from day into night or summer into winter. What do we need for such an amazing show?
	Effect slides Effect slides superimpose a special effect over a scene. Popular effects include rainbows, dreams and visions, fires, and angelic or ghostly apparitions.
	Chromatropes A chromatrope uses two discs of glass painted with colourful abstract patterns, which rotate in opposite directions to produce fascinating images on the screen.
	Fantoccini Slides Other names for these rare mechanical slides are 'silhouette slides' or 'shadow slides'. A familiar example is the somersaulting monkey.
	Mechanical special effects slides An invisible drawing master, a wheel of live, shady moiré patterns....
	Special slides
	Life Models By this we mean the photographic slides on which costumed actors are posed in scenes or on locations to illustrate songs, moral tales, sentimental stories, narratives or other texts.
	Motto Slides Lantern slides carrying a short message or greeting, mainly used by the lanternist to welcome his audience or to say good-bye to them, but also to urge them to behave themselves.
	Advertising slides Advertising slides were often loaned or given away to lanternists free of charge from a wide variety of companies. After all those slides were one of the most effective ways of conveying their advertising message to a wide audience in those days.
	Disc Slides Some magic lanterns were able to show not only the 'normal', oblong glass strips, but also disc shaped slides. Favourite subjects were fairy tales, anthropology, caricatures, religious themes and much more.
	Sing-along Slides Shortly before the First World War a lot of magic lantern slides were produced that illustrated the texts of popular sing-alongs of those days. They were as essential to the stimulation of the sale of pop songs as video clips on television are today.
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	Where do the little children come from? Don't believe the odd stories they tell you. Now you hear where they really come from.
	Lantern slides and how to make them. For making his own slides the amateur lanternist could apply various techniques: hand painting or drawing on glass, the use of translucent transfers, or photography.
	Primus Projection Post Cards Twenty sets of cards for episcopic projection, featuring pictures also used for the slides of the Junior Lecturers Series.
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