Magic lantern - Life model sets

part 4

A rather extensive collection of beautiful life-model sets of
magic lantern slides


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Cripple Tom: or 'knowing is loving and loving is doing'. A set of 17 life model slides made by G.M. Mason, England, after Mrs Walter Searle's song 'Cripple Tom: or, knowing is loving, and loving is doing'. This is how the story starts..... In one of the deplorably miserable East London homes, in a dark, wretched room at the top of a house, lay a cripple boy, greatly neglected and comparatively unknown. When quite young his parents had died, leaving him to the mercy of an aged relative, whom he called “Granny”. Born a cripple, he had always been a sufferer, but as long as he was able, he had swept a crossing on his crutches, or gone on short errands to earn a few pence. But soon after his parents‘ death the boy had to take to his bed. Very ungraciously the old woman allowed him to occupy the top room in her house, which room he never left again.


1. In a wretched room a cripple boy lay.	2. He swept a crossing on his crutches.	3. In the Mission Hall for the sake of warmth.

4. He one day consulted Granny about it.	5. Up the creaking stairs came noisy Jack Lee.	6. A bright new shilling for you Tom, lad.


7. He returned with a beautiful shilling Bible.	8. Tom hugged the book to his breast.	9. After a month's reading Tom knew his Bible well.


10. Tom dropped his text into the noisy street.	11. So you are the lad who drops texts from the window.	12. The little paper fell on my hat, I opened it.
	I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. John 9:4 King James Bible
13. Cripple Tom's Text.		14. The Homes for Cripple Lads.

15. The strong man knelt by the boy's bedside.	16. A Mission Hall, built on his own ground.	17. The post brought a parcel containing Tom's much prized Bible.
Daddy. Set of nine magic lantern slides made by the most producing manufacturer of life model slides, Bamforth & Co. (1896) after the song 'Daddy' by Mary Mark Lemon and A.H. Behrend.


1. Take my head on your shoulder, daddy, turn your face to the west.	2. The day has been long without you, daddy, you have been such a while away.	3. But I've got you, and you've got me. So everything seems right.

4. Why do your big tears fall, daddy? Mother's not far away.	5. (Effect) I often seem to hear her voice falling across my play.	6. And it sometimes makes me cry, daddy, to think it's none of it true.

3 rpt. But I've got you, and you've got me. So everything seems right.	7. I'm sometimes afraid to think, daddy, when I am big like you.	8. If, when we get up to Heaven, and mother was waiting there.

3 rpt. But year by year still sees no change.	9. Daddy, good night, dear daddy, good night.	Detail.
A little girl tries to comfort her father after the death of their mother and wife: Why do your big tears fall, daddy? Mother's not far away. I often seem to hear her voice falling across my play. Slide #3 is two times repeated, after #6 and #8.

The song 'Daddy' has been depicted by several other manufacturers too, like G.M. Mason, England; York & Son, England; and finally an unknown manufacturer who replaced the girl by a boy to play the leading part. Bamforth also produced a reissue of 'Daddy', containing 16 slides. You'll find the complete Mason set at the item 'I love you!'.
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