Slide set: Fiddler and crocodile: or, the power of music (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 6 slides, 1869)

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Slide 1**

The fiddler's coat tail grabbed by a crocodile

Slide 2**

The crocodile lets go on hearing the fiddle

Slide 3**

The crocodile dances on the 'light fantastic toe'

Slide 4**

The crocodile dancing, shakes the Pyramids

Slide 5**

The Pyramids fall, and kill the crocodile

Slide 6**

The fiddler being jolly after his escape

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (3)

unknown

List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 13

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), F [1]

“A very funny set from rough sketches, illustrating the marvellous power of music 'to sooth the savage breast'”

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 200

Other reference

1888

Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 287

“The power of music. The fiddler overcomes a crocodile by the beauty of the strains from a fiddle.”

Lucerna ID 3005307

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 March 2024

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Slide set: Fiddler and crocodile: or, the power of music (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 6 slides, 1869)