Cinematograph lantern (magic or optical lantern, n.d.)

Type of hardware

magic or optical lantern

Nation of origin

unknown

Date of first manufacture

unknown

Examples of this hardware

Magic Lantern / Filmprojector Bing (cinematograph lantern, Gebrüder Bing, n.d.)

Dimensions

unknown

Production

Original retail price

unknown

References

‘Advertisements from the Optical Magic Lantern Journal of 1900’ in NMLJ 1.1 (April 1978), p. 2

John Barnes, ‘The Barnes Museum: catalogue excerpts’ in NMLJ 1.2 (February 1979), p. 6

Notes

A combination of a cinematograph mechanism for showing film-based moving pictures with a standard lantern body for showing static slide images.

Lucerna ID 2000023

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 October 2011

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Cinematograph lantern (magic or optical lantern, n.d.)