Magic lantern - There's music in the air.

There's Music in the Air

	A great opening slide for our Musical Magic Lantern Show. A gipsy girl dancing with a tambourine gives you a hearty welcome. This motto slide is 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" (8.2 x 8.2 cm). Motto slides are slides carrying small texts, mostly related to the presentation of the show, like 'Welcome', 'Silence', Good Night', and so on.
Panoramic slide showing a batch of children that attend classical music lessons in school. Slide made by Ernst Plank (E.P.) Germany.
Another E.P. slide. Nice group of children that have another interpretation of the concept of 'music'.
And on their way back the group of children was considerably on the increase. E.P.-slide, 22 x 7 cm.
Standard American 3.25" x 4" (8.2 x 4 cm) glass magic lantern slide. Nice caricatures of a flute player, a piccolo player, a trumpet player, and a tuba player, standing on a cobblestone street. The paper label states: "K No. 1 -- Dot Leedle German Band." "Dot Leedle" is not the name of the band-leader. It is a dialect rendering of "That Little," as it would be spoken in English by someone with a German accent.	Beautiful hand painted magic lantern slide titled "Grandmother's Dancing Lesson". Measures 3 1/4 by 4 inches (8.2 x 4 cm). Not any musical instrument to be seen on this slide but when you look at the picture you actually hear the matching music play. (I hear one of Mozarts Minuets)

'Fiddler and Monkey', dual-movement magic lantern slide. Charming scene of a group of villagers gathered to watch a fiddler and his dancing monkey. The fiddler's arm and bow is moved by a brass lever while the monkey moves on a pivoting glass plate. The wooden frame of his hand painted late 19th century sample measures 7 x 4 1/2 inches (18 x 11.5 cm).
Glass strip showing various musicians. Measures 5 3/4" x 1 1/2" (14.5 x 4 cm). Numbered '11'.

Two of a set of twelve square 3.25" (8.2 cm) magic lantern slides depicting the famous fairy tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Hand painted.

Single slipping slide. When the moving glass is shifted to and fro some of the flutist's fingers are covered up. This suggests the man is playing a song for us.
	One slide of a set of four early 19th century lantern slides. The four slides are illustrating the John Howard Payne poem, "Home Sweet Home", "Be it ever so humble there's no place like home." Framed in mahogany, these slides are completely hand painted and retain their original labels with partial text of the poem. Also bear original stamp from TH McAllister, Optician, NY. c. 1870. Size 7 x 4 x 3/8" (18 x 10 x 1 cm) Glass: 3" (7.6 cm) diameter.
Christies Old Organ. Three beautiful slides of a series of 28 square 'Life Model slides'. It tells the sad story of a young boy who comes across the old organ grinder Old Treffy who is ill and chilled with the cold. He takes the organ from him to earn some money for the poor man. He meets a girl called Mabel who becomes his friend. Having earned enough money they bring a doctor to see Old Treffy but it's too late; the old man dies.

Fantastic single slipping slide in a mahogany frame. When the moving glass is shifted, the pianist appears to be playing the piano. Measures 17.5 x 10 cm.
The end of our Musical Magic Lantern Show is announced by a colourful dressed herald with the text 'Adieu'. Farewell, Lebewohl, Vaarwel, Adíos. Single slipping motto slide in a wooden frame, 18 x 10 cm.