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A Junior Torch Lantern

amazon.co.uk

For book, music, DVD's, electronics, photographic
and software.

The Magic Lantern Society is an Amazon
Associate.

Any purchases you make after following this link
will generate a small % donation to the Society.

Always follow this link to the Amazon.co.uk
website:

Member's
Sites

Museums
& Collections

Other
Useful Sites

Commercial
Sites

Member's
Sites

Visual Media
Thomas Weynants' website.

Phantasmagoria slides and engravings, street performers,
optical toys
& other subjects such as strong men & strong women.

Explanation of different Phantasmagoria techniques. - Optical toys;
anamorphic demonstrations, etc..
The site is focusing, both, on
pre-cinema & (stereo) photography
A wonderful new addition to the
Magic Lantern on the Web.

The
Richard Balzer Collection
An excellent website featuring
examples from Dick's renowned collection of optical devices and entertainments.
"Perhaps you will see things you have not previously seen and learn something
new".

Füsslin Verlag
A German publisher of
excellent reference books on optical toys and the precinema. Looking for
information on anamorphic pictures or optical toys like thaumatropes,
phenakistascopes, zoetropesÂ etc. - all can be found in the books of the
Füsslin Verlag. The current book title "Laterna Magica - Magic Lantern, Vol.
1" by Deac Rossell - also a member of this Society - is published in a
bilingual English/German edition.

The American Magic Lantern Theater

Delightful opening page. The site contains a useful history of the Lantern with
some good images.
Terry Borton is the Director of The American
Magic-Lantern Theater.
You've seen the Site now see the show!

Michael Lawlor
Michael focuses on
Canadian Magic Lantern Traveloges and how slide images were used to attract
tourists and immigrants to a developing nation. He prepares prints for
exhibition and sale, and presents Magic Lantern Slide Lectures on Canadian
topics.

The Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive

Andrew Gill's Ebay shop sells prints from his slide collection. The
available images include themes (railways, children, 1840s county maps,
mining, sport, illuminated biblical texts etc.) as well as UK cities, towns
and villages.

Professor
Mervyn Heard
The combined purpose of this humble site is to
promote the work of 'Professor' Mervyn Heard (international lantern
showman, philosopher and people's friend) and to dispel a few ill-founded
rumours about that ancient, much misunderstood, frequently weird and
wonderful form of pre-cinema, pictorial entertainment of which he is the
prime exhibitor.

Bring
the Museum to You
Rosemary Gill's new website.
Visit
Rosemary's site to find out how Magic Lanterns and Toys can be used in
education.
Plus a delightful little lantern show on the home
page.

Laterna Magica
Herman Bollaert's new
site about the Lanterna Magica Galanteeshow
Very dashing, like its owner.

Equip yourself with the latest Flash plug-in to enjoy this site.

It's a bit slow to down-load on a dial-up connection, but be patient, there
is a splendid little show for you to enjoy.

The Projection Box
"The Projection
Box is committed to publishing new research and archive documents in the
subjects of pre-cinema, early film and optical recreations...."
Stephen
Herbert and Mo Heard
Lots of good things to enjoy

Priscus
Mark Butterworth's site
offering fine quality prints of Scotland, Australia and New Zealand.

Taken from original magic lantern slide photographs.

Grand
Illusions
George Auckland and Hendrik Ball's site - lots of
interesting optical material and items for sale. Watch the videos!

Illuminago
Ludwig Vogl-Bienek and Karin
Bienek's smart new website.
Lots of good things to see, even if your
German is not so good, including a "visit" to
Karin and Ludwig's
shop in historical Limburg an der Lahn.

Derek Greenacre's Magic Lantern site
"A
Thrill In The Dark. Victorian Magic Lantern Shows"
An excellent
introduction to the Magic Lantern and Lantern Slides.
Lots of good
images, well worth a visit.

Eric Foxley's Magic Lantern Site
Useful
site with images and references to the Magic Lantern Society.

Peter Stibbons' Magic
Lantern Site
A site with plans for many good things to
come.
Some information about the Randall-Salter Collection.
If
you're visiting Norfolk, England you can still sometimes catch presentations
of the
Randall-Salter Lantern show.

Mike Bartley and Janet Tamblin's Site

Lots of excellent photos of Mike and Janet's various Lantern and Puppet shows.

Galantee
So
Dolly Whilems and Derek Adams' Magic Lantern
Site
Dissolving views, animated slipper slides, some photographic slides
of Java.
Excellent piece on Phantasmagoria.

Pierre Patau and Elisabeth Calley's Site

Games, Juvenilia, Pre-cinema, Magic, Movable books
Established in the
world famous Portobello market in London since 1982.

Mark
Butterworth
Mark's site offering a History of
Astronomical Magic Lantern Slides. There are also details of his lantern
lectures and writing on The Magic Lantern.

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Museums and
Collections

Musica
Magica
Ruth Baumer & Günther
Holzhey's website with information about their Museum and Lantern
Shows.

Deutsches
Filmmuseum
The German Film
Museum
Frankfurt am Main

The Museum of the
Cinema
Girona
The collection of
Tomàs Mallol
It is one of the few museums where you can journey through
the 500 years of the history of images.
An excellent site in
Spanish, French and English

The Museum of Pre
cinema
The Minici Zotti Collection in
English
A small but perfectly formed site, giving information about the
Museum, a brief description of the Lantern and Lantern Slide, and some
delightful animations.

The Bill Douglas
Collection
Exeter, England
"Housing
the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection, the Bill Douglas Centre
forms the most comprehensive resource for the historical study of popular
culture of any British university."
A very good site hosted by the
University of Exeter.

Magic Lantern Castle
Museum
Home page with a brief history
of the Lantern and detailed information about the museum.
Jack
Judson; CEO, Director, Curator, Historian (technology), Owner. Past
President,
The Magic Lantern Society, U.S. and
Canada.

National Museum of Photography Film and
Television
Bradford, England

Lots of information about the Museum

The McCord Museum of Canadian History

A delightful site featuring images
from their collection, imaginatively structured web pages allow you to watch a
complete slide show (with reading if you want) or create your own slide
sequence.

The Cabinet of Physics of the Teyler
Museum
A beautifully presented site
with images and information about early scientific instruments. Some nice magic
lantern items and generally an interesting site.

Smithsonian
Material
about Lanterns, pre Cinema and Pioneering British photographer Edweard Muybridge
(1830-1904)

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Other Useful
Sites

The
Magic Lantern Society of The United States and
Canada
Site introducing the US
Society. Aimed at enthusiasts living in the USA and Canada

Toverlantaarn
Op School

The Magic Lantern at School - A site in Dutch detailing Ruth
Stijntjes and Daan Buddingh's Workshop's and Projects aimed at introducing
children to the art (and enjoyment) of projection with a magic lantern.

DiaProjection

La lanterne magique et le cinéma étant largement traités par
ailleurs, ce site présente tout ce qui concerne le visionnage et la projection
d'images fixes du XVIIIe siècle jusqu'aux années 1970.
Différentes
catégories très bien illustrées permettent de retrouver les lanternes de
projection, les systèmes d'éclairage, les types de vues, les gravures et
chromos, les brevets et inventeurs, etc.

The magic lantern and the cinema being widely covered
elsewhere, this website features everything about the viewing and projection of
fixed images of the XVIIIth century to the 1970s.
Different categories, very
well illustrated, track the projection lantern, lighting systems, types of
views, engravings and lithographs, patents and inventors, etc.

Toverlantaarn
A
delightful site in Dutch and English, including some excellent images and a nice
video (in Dutch)

The
Collectors Weekly

The Collectors
Weekly is a resource for collectors and people who love antiques. Their goal is
to build a great place to explore and learn about collecting, and a showcase
for the passion and knowledge of collectors everywhere. More info at:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/about/about.php. Check out the latest
information on magic lanterns on ebay at their special page: magic lanterns

Victorian Microscope Slides
Howard Lynk's
interesting website on collectable micrsocope slides. He has some excellent
illustrations of Carpenter and Westley lantern slides featuring mounted
specimens.

Loek Raemakers
Small
site in Dutch and English, includes the earliest illustration of a Magic
Lantern 1420 AD

Professor Clark's Virtual Magic Lantern
Show
An excellent site with lots of
good things to look at and read. You will find whole shows with text and
slides. Some of the images are quite large so the pages are a bit slow to
download.
"Professor Clarke" displays a delightful degree of MADNESS.
Enjoy.

de Luikerwaal
Claims to
be the one and only magic lantern site in the Netherlands (Dutch and
English versions). All about the magic lantern. "A mine of information,
nice stories and useful data for collectors".
You even learn the meaning
of the site's name 'de Luikerwaal'

The
Amazing Ascent of Mount Robson
A Magic
Lantern Slide Show "The Amazing Ascent of Mount Robson by the Alpine Club
of Canada, 1924" presented by Glenbow Museum.
The Glenbow Museum is
located in the heart of Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.

Janet Penny's Bosnia
Slides
Some years ago Janet found some
glass plate slides in a battered box at a junk market. They were from a
country very far away, and at the time, was at war. She bought the
slides.....
...........now read the rest of this fascinating story.

Della
Porta
Giambattista della (John
Baptist) Porta (1537?-1615), was a Neapolitan scholar of notable ability
who had devoted great attention to the study of natural and physical
science. This is very good
stuff.

Dead Media
Society
Everything you could want to
know about anything (dead), if you could only find it.
Huge,
fascinating and mostly not about lanterns.
Several (living) members of
the Magic Lantern Society have made contributions.
See if you can spot
them at the next meeting and challenge such people:
"You are a living member
of the Dead Media Society and I claim Â£5",
which is a pretty dead by-line
these days.

Photographer to the
Tsar
The fabulous colour photographs
of the "Photographer to the Tsar":
Sergei Mikhailovich
Prokudin-Gorskii
In the very early years of the twentieth century, long
before colour film was invented,
Prokudin-Gorskii took many colour
photographs of the Russian Empire.
He projected them using a Tri-unial
Magic Lantern.
See some of them, and how they were made. Fantastic!

Magic Lantern
Rose
'Magic Lantern' requires
insightful placement in the garden, because the blooms are so delicate in
colour that she may get lost against brighter stars. You guessed it, there
is a rose called Magic Lantern, and why not?
Which brings me nicely on
to........

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Commercial
Sites

This section is not an endorsement of
the following sites and services by the Magic Lantern Society, but is
presented for information only.

Endici
Endici
have a comprehensive selection of magic lantern slides and magic lanterns, from
early hand painted to more recent topographical slides.

The
Malby Archives
The online archives of
the Malby Collections; unique libraries of images that represent the
recently rediscovered work of the Victorian photographic firm, Reginald A.
Malby & Co.
They were leading horticultural photographers of the
Georgian and Victorian Era and Official Photographers for The Royal
Horticultural Society between 1910-1940. The site includes a recently
uncovered library of hundreds of Malby images in Glass Magic Lantern Slide

format, all between 100 - 70 years old, and exquisitely
hand-coloured.

Photographica
Early
& Antique Cameras, Magic Lanterns and slides, Pre Cinema, etc
A
commercial site with lots of equipment for sale.
Lionel Hughes, Portobello
Road London

Vintage Camera Online

Links, eBooks, information about
collecting vintage and antique cameras.

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