Machine which corresponds to prototype of slide projector " Magic Lamp Machine" projects images drawn on glass onto curtains etc. using lamps and lenses. According to John Plunket of Exeter College, ...

LONG before the birth of the motion picture, audiences worldwide were entertained by magic lantern shows that brought popular stories, temperance tales and ghosts and ghouls to vivid life. Magic ...

Netflix didn't exist during the Victorian era, of course, but people living during the 1800s and early 1900s had another way to binge-watch: the "magic lantern." According to new research, these early ...

Similar to a slide projector, but with more alluring subject matter than mitosis and meiosis, magic lanterns were the 19th-century entertainment. A show at the Museum of the City of New York brought ...

The Magic Lantern museum is the world’s only repository of the earliest projectors I’m not sure what I was looking up on the internet when I found it. With a name like a Disney theme-park ride, the ...

PANAJI, India (Reuters Life!) - Long before the lights, cameras and the action came to Bollywood, a family armed with a "magic lantern" breathed life into stories from Hindu mythology to audiences ...

A double magic lantern projector that's been converted from oil to electric lamps. The dual projector allows for one slide to be shown while another is changed. Printed on front and sides: "Benj. Pike ...

Recently, we've heard an awful lot about something called Magic Lantern, although generally as a piece of software, not in reference to the historical projection device. The original Magic Lantern – ...