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Encyclopaedia of the Magic Lantern 
ISBN: 095104415X 

edited by David Robinson, Stephen Herbert and Richard Crangle 
published in April 2001 by The Magic Lantern Society. 
This is a comprehensive reference source of the history, 
technology, uses and aesthetics of the magic lantern, 
the pioneer of the moving image.
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Hardcover 360 pages (April 27, 2001) 
Publisher: Magic Lantern Soc. 
ISBN: 095104415X 
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Synopsis :

As Per Title - See Also Attached Sheet For 300 years, the magic lantern - 
ancestor of today's film, slide, video and data projectors - enchanted, 
entertained and educated millions throughout the world. 

For its sixth book, The Magic Lantern Society is to publish an Encyclopaedia 
on this much neglected medium of art and instruction. 

This ambitious project will include accurate information on all technical 
aspects of the lantern, biographies of lantern inventors and showmen and 
details of manufacturers and distributors of both hardware and software. 

It is anticipated that there will be towards 1000 entries with 500 
illustrations, the book running to 360 pages. 

Though by necessity Eurocentric, (research in much of the world is only 
just starting to be undertaken), the entries do give a sense of the 
international use of optical projection, from the early Phantasmagoria 
showmen who 'raised ghosts' in Germany, France, Britain and the USA 
in the 1790s and 1800s, to amusing accounts of the rough reception 
given to travelling lanternists in out-of-the-way Australian towns 
in the 1860s. Technical entries explain Argand lamps and triunials, 
chromatropes and limelight burners, panoramic slides and the Lantern 
Wheel of Life. 

Important figures included range from Robertson to Muybridge, and 
dozens of virtually unknown names are 'brought to life'. Organisations 
covered include the famous Royal Polytechnic (home of the lantern 
in England for 50 years), the Band of Hope and the Salvation Army.
ISBN: 095104415X 
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