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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. |
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Themes Magic lantern slides sorted by theme. The Bible Beautiful lantern slides depicting Scripture texts in three parts: The Old Testament, the New Testament and the parable of the prodigal son.  Punch and JudyPunch and Judy are the hero and heroine of a comical puppet show. A lot of lantern slides depict their humorous adventures. On your bike! Lantern slides showing the ups and downs of cycling. Ladies and gentlemen! A visual visit to Circus 'Luikerwalo'. In come the clowns........ Bad habits  In addition to its role as popular
entertainment, the magic lantern was also being put to educational purposes. Religious
and idealistic organisations like the Salvation Army and the Temperance
movement used the effectiveness of the magic lantern as a powerful weapon
against the evils of drink and other 'bad habits'.Once upon a time......  .......there lived in Germany two brothers who
gave the world a lot of stories. There names are Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm, but usually we simply call them the Brothers Grimm.Special: Little Red Riding Hood Funny Faces  An amusing gallery of entertaining, spitting, touching, shocking,
beautiful, frightening, flashy, but always telling portraits.
The Boy Scouts Nostalgic magic lantern slides about the Boy Scout movement, founded in Great Britain in 1908 by Robert Baden-Powell. Complete with original readings. Merry Christmas ! Vrolijk Kerstfeest, Joyeux Noël, Fröhliche Weihnachten, Feliz Navidad. Season's Greetings for the friends of the magic lantern. 
A Carefree ChildhoodLantern slides depicting children.............. and.... Children's games Slides depicting the playing child, outside and at home. 
Work for a livingWhat did our ancestors do for a living? A choice of magic lantern slides depicting the livelihood of our grand- and great-grandparents. 
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.Probably no other book, apart from the Bible, was published in so many versions of magic lantern slides as Daniel Defoe's famous novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Animal Alphabet depicted on magic lantern slides. Not yet completed, but too nice to hold back any longer. The Dutch Salvation Army (Leger der Heils) and the magic lantern. The Salvation Army in the Netherlands often made well use of the magic lantern in various ways. It was mobilised in numerous demonstrations and meetings.  There's Music in the Air. A selection of magic lantern slides on music, musicians and musical instruments. |
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Example series De Ontdekking van Amerika (The discovery of America) decalcomania. Decalcomania. G.B.N. Bavaria A series of twelve slides. |
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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-manThe 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
slidesEffect slides superimpose a special effect over a scene. Popular effects include rainbows, dreams and visions, fires, and angelic or ghostly apparitions.  ChromatropesA 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.... |
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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 slidesAdvertising 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. |
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Famous slide sets The Tiger and the Tub "Mr Long & Mr Short go for a walk.....", a well known opening sentence from a incredible story, told on several sets of magic lantern slides.  The Water-babiesOnce upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom..... A wonderful set of twenty four slides from Charles Kingsley's famous children's story 'The Water-babies'.  The Bottle  The English caricaturist George Cruikshank published
a series of eight plates 'The Bottle' (1847) about the danger
of alcoholism. After the example of his etches some imposing sets of magic lantern slides
appeared.How Jane Conquest rang the Bell This example of a set of Life Model Slides tells the story of a woman who is placed in a terrible dilemma: to stay at home with her little child that is dangerously ill, or to leave her house and try to save the crew of a ship in flames. Mickey Mouse in 'The Delivery Boy' The British Ensign ltd produced a magic lantern and slides, based on the early Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies. Saint George and the Dragon A set of twelve 3.25" slides depicting the legend of the patron saint of England and patron of the Scouting Movement. |
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Various 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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