Jun 06, 2017 christianity themed magic lantern slides are relatively common. Overall, the meeting program was one of the most diverse we have had, both in the. The magic lantern was used to illustrate lectures, concerts, pantomimes and other forms of theatre. While most magic lanterns were designed as simple wooden boxes fitted with a handful of precision brass parts, a few were ornately decorated with exotic painted scenes or engraved metal casings. Slides are transfers or decals stuck onto the glass strips. Some sharpeyed magic lantern ephemera collectors have noticed that the 5. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search.
How can i scan magic lantern slides with my epson scanner. The more criteria you add, the narrower you make the search. Catalog of magic lantern slide sets that were used in education. Magic lanterns and the rise of 19thcentury netflix cnn. Mary proctor was the daughter of a famous astronomer, and a major popularizer of the subject. The slides are listed individually by title but are not illustrated.
Desktop changer with optional slide omatic view for that oltimey slideshow look. As with all technologies, manufacturers found ways to reduce production costs and, at the same time, create new markets. The astronomical magic lantern show was a wellknown form in the nineteenth century. The first lantern slides were created in the 1600s, around 200 years before. Magic lantern and lantern slide distribution catalogs are rare items and mostly held in private collections. This was done by transferring the engraved black outlines of an image on to glass for subsequent handcolouring by professional slide painters.
The eyes and mouth are both painted on separate, movable plates, creating the illusion of an animated tiger when the slide is projected. Developed by moses holden in 1814, he used it before the invention of photography to illustrate his astronomical lectures. American magiclantern theater american magiclantern. To find a slide set, enter as many search terms as you want in the form below and click one of the search button. There are many collections which remain uncatalogued. Money back guarantee ensures you receive the item you ordered or get your money back. Magic lanterns, also known as optical lanterns, provided one of the most popular forms of. For centuries it was a source of pleasure for young and old, poor and rich. The collection includes magic lanterns, glass lantern slides, optical toys, early edison projectors from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s. Magic lantern slides telling the story of puss in boots. I have several old magic lantern slides which i would like to scan. Collectible magic lantern glass slides for sale ebay. Utushie is a type of magic lantern show that became popular in japan in the 19th century. Cleaning and scanning lantern slides artifact photography.
Lantern slides and visual communication were central. Before there was powerpoint and data projectors, before even 35mm kodak slides which now too have fallen into disuse, there were magic lantern slides. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. He was once on a city committee to investigate perpetual motion. The basic production techniques for eight types of handmade lantern slides are featured. From 19thcentury magic lantern shows to amateur astronomy, this journey.
The leading british manufacturer of magic lanterns and slides carpenter and westley was the first to use particular manufacturing processes for the multiple production of magic lantern slides. The entire catalogue is publishes in 10 sections, this is section 2. When photography emerged in the mid1800s, it was a natural fit for the magic lantern technology. The thousands of magiclantern slides for sale on ebay every. The ernst plank company was seated in the hochfederstrasse 40 in the german toy town of nuremberg. The mission style frame i made from my recycled old floor boards. Lantern slides come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. The emulation guide also covers initial firmware analysis and has some reverse engineering tips. Finally a moment of time to build a light box to display some slides. Businesses were advertising a vast range of slides including images depicting comics, fairytales, astronomy, scripture, travelogues.
I have many of these listed, i can combine shipping. The standard canon firmware is not replaced and the stock menu can still be accessed and utilized. You can simply rest the lantern slide on the glass of the scanner, somewhere near the middle. The earliest slides for magic lanterns consisted of handpainted images on glass, projected by itinerant showmen telling stories about the images that were projected.
Many made in germany, and frequently are rectangular strips of glass of many sizes, with blue, green, red, orange, pink or yellow paper edging glued on so not to cut childrens hands. Magic lantern lantern slides and how to make them part 1. The problem is when batch scanning the slides vuescan thinks that i am scanning in 8 slides and not 4. The association of the magic lantern and astronomy goes back to the. Buy magic lantern glass slides for sale at auction. Many manufacturers also invented ingenious mechanisms to create movement or animation in the projected image. Lantern slide showing astronomical subjects, 18151825, from the collection of. They were used to teach and demonstrate certain aspects of astronomy and became popular tools by lecturers on the subject. Understanding the magic lantern smithsonian institution. Magic lantern slides for sale, vintage camera auctions. Grandfather carter was a chemist and respected philadelphia scientist. Magic lantern slide by carpenter and westley the magic lantern, also known by its latin name lanterna magica, is an early type of image projector that used picturespaintings, prints, or photographs on transparent plates usually made of glass, one or more lenses, and a light source.
Auguste lapierre set up a smallscale metal workshop in paris in 1848, specialising in toy lanterns. In the united states, the greatest impact of lantern slides was as a didactic tool and a form of entertainment. From the 17th century different manufacturers and countries engaged in fierce competition to establish their own sizes as the standard. The lantern slide has its origins in 17th century optical viewing devices which came to be known as magic lanterns. Lantern slides for sale in my lifetime, i have acquired around 250,000 magic lantern slides.
A source of knowledge too for students and scientists. Mar 26, 2008 a short video on bob skell, who collects glass lantern slides by kathryn stevens, world photographer. We had a great convention in boston, at dick balzers carriage house museum. Buy magic lantern glass slides for sale at auction invaluable. Popular magic lantern presentations included henry langon childes dissolving views, his chromatrope, phantasmagoria and mechanical slides. The historic camera club international lantern slides. During the first world war they were still the dominant projection slide format, even though the heyday of lantern slides was twenty years earlier. Nice circa 1920s1930s glass slide or magic lantern slide. They can be recognized by the simple paint areas applied.
The french family lapierre was a family of magic lantern, slide and cinematograph manufacturers. The magic of the lantern was a concave mirror behind a flame that directed the light through the glass slide into a lens, projecting the image on a wall. Getting started with magic lantern can be a bit daunting for a beginner. In 1860 lapierre filed a patent for a method of stamping out plate metal that enabled him to produce at a cheaper rate than his principal rival in.
It was mostly developed in the 17th century and commonly used for entertainment purposes. Besides magic lanterns the firm also made all kinds of tin toy steamboats and train sets. Science, especially magic lantern astronomy, was another important area of lantern shows. This list of lantern slide collections provides an overview of collections held in institutions internationally. Aug 03, 2017 the magic lantern software runs directly from the sd or a cf card. In the 1600s, various european inventors developed simple devices for projecting imagery using a light source, mirror. Lecture notes with comments to a set of astronomical lanterns slides of the same title. It is designed to be a crossplatform solution for multiple targets such as desktops, game consoles, mobile devices and settop boxes. Next to lantern slides on the subject of natural sciences, some accessories of lantern slides were advertised, too. Magic lanterns were most commonly used for entertainment and as objects of wonder.
This catalog, catalog e, contains slides of natural history that illustrate subjects in zoology, botany, geology, astronomy, textile fibres and machinery among others birds, insects and plants in nature, plant associations, protective resemblance, pond life, sea. I picked up my very small stack of 10 lantern slides from a garage sale where they had been stored in the bottom of an old backyard shed in cottage country. The astronomical lantern slide and the visual communication of. These catalogs can help archivists and collectors to identify magic lanterns and lantern slides and they also enrich knowledge of the development of. Sep 16, 2014 how to display your magic lantern slides. When i digitise lantern slides, i sometimes want to capture both the slide image and the detail of the glass mount. Magic lantern slides are a rich source are archival photographs. A more complex astronomical rackwork slide showed the. I think they might look a lot better if i tried to scan them as film, but when i do that, my computer complains. If you would like to be added to our email list, we will be pleased to advise you of future auctions and catalogs. Lucerna is an online resource on the magic lantern, an early slide projector invented in the 17th century for more than 350 years the magic lantern has represented and fed into every aspect of human life and every part of the world.
The frame was photoshopped out of a scanned image from 1965. Printed on orig cardboard rims, usually above image. Magic lanterns primus magic lantern slides catalogue. As a result, his grandchildren were instructed with a heavy dose of astronomy magic lantern slides and natural history slides and microscopic creature slides. This catalog, catalog e, contains slides of natural history that illustrate subjects in zoology, botany, geology, astronomy, textile fibres and machinery among others birds, insects and plants in nature, plant associations, protective resemblance, pond life.
The magic lantern, also known by its latin name lanterna magica, is an early type of image projector that used picturespaintings, prints, or photographson transparent plates usually made of glass, one or more lenses, and a light source. Now when i scan it takes twice as long, i just need to be sure that vuescan is just going to scan 4 slides, but i cant find anywhere to set it back to the expected 4 slides. Clearly, this is way beyond a hobby, pastime or even passion and might be a medical condition of some sort. Color collectible magic lantern glass slides for sale ebay. Thats why computer science student and filmmaker jake coppinger put together this easytofollow stepbystep video. Lucerna is an online resource on the magic lantern, an early slide projector invented in the 17th century. Magic lanterns, also known as optical lanterns, provided one of the most popular forms of entertainment during their heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries, establishing many of the first 2d special effects. Today the range of slide types can seem quite bewildering. Get the best deals on color collectible magic lantern glass slides when you shop the largest online selection at.
You could purchase the set with a printed script or hire it instead, which is interesting in itself. A device with a name sounding mysterious and romantic. Never delete the magic lantern files from the card. Teachers demonstrate how to make the types of slides most appropriate for use on various grade levels. Many thousands of photos taken during the war were printed onto glass slides so that they could be projected for audiences. Especially in the later nineteenth century, many slide producers published readings giving a recitation, story or lecture to accompany the slide images. Alice in wonderland magic lantern slides magic lantern world. Ernst plank was the second largest in nuremberg, after. Although i have had good luck with it, and know other photographers who run magic lantern without issues, there are no guarantees that it is safe. Shop forand learn about magic lanterns and lantern slides.
With the advent of photography, better optics, and the electric light, by the late 1800s, lantern slides were cutting edge mediaprojecting an image large enough a whole classroom if not auditorium could see. Lantern slides created a new way to view both commercial and amateur photography. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. How can i configure the number of slides in vuescan for.
Magic lanterns and lantern slides collectors weekly. The magic lantern is one of the most important inventions of our history. Alice in wonderland magic lantern slides by the early 20th century, magic lantern projectors and glass lantern slides were very common. Street life magic lantern slides todays photographs are from a set of fifty magic lantern slides made in the 1890s called street life. Lantern slides illustrating zoology, botany, geology. My grandfather, rev hugh rodger, visited canada in the summer of 1908 to attend his brothers wedding in wapella sk. It is still used today, both in its original form and through direct descendants like the modern data projector. These slides are on the subject of botany, zoology, natural history, cultivation of fruit and farming. A 19th century glass magic lantern slide of a tiger. Get the best deal for collectible magic lantern glass slides from the largest online selection at. Lanterne salon, boxed with accompanying magic lantern slides. I make two scans without moving the original a reflective scan of the mount, and a transmissive scan of the image and combine the two in photoshop. Magic lantern slides brought the world to life in pictures. The magic lantern gazette sdsu library san diego state.
The full title of the lecture is a compendium of astronomy. Most commercially produced slides were sold in sets, often related to a published story, lecture, poem or song. Photographs taken through the telescope literally opened up new worlds to audiences when projected through the lantern. Magic lantern glass slides were invented in the 17th century as an image projector using photos on sheets of glass. Christian magic lantern slides magic lantern world. With luck, you will get the image in focus, since the thickness of the glass slide is about the same distance as the offset of the epson film holders. Tens of thousands still exist even though they were produced over one hundred years ago. Street life magic lantern slides magic lantern world. While the earliest photographic methods required an intimate viewership, the projection capabilities of the magic lantern allowed for a sizable audience. You can run both canon firmware and magic lantern, to some extent, in qemu.
With this method, you will still be able to run magic lantern from other cards. The magic lantern was a very popular medium, particularly so from the 18th to the early 20th century. The use of a magic lantern to teach astronomy was one of the first useful purposes for these devices. If you cannot find a firmware dumper, feel free to ask. We offer combined postage discounts for international buyers in respect of multiple purchases of magic lantern slides. Several christian denominations had their own magic lantern departments, producing huge quantities of slides illustrating bible stories, moral lessons and hymns. First world war magic lantern slides magic lantern world. As a result, this list is likely to continue to expand as more information is made available.
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