Text: Herman Bollaert and Ditmar Bollaert, ‘Phantasmagoriae’ in NMLJ 2.3 (January 1983)
The new magic lantern journal: volume 2 number 3 (January 1983), pp. 9-11
author: BOLLAERT, Herman (1929-2021)
photographer: BOLLAERT, Ditmar
Improved Phantasmagoria lantern (magic or optical lantern, n.d.)
Illuminant (, n.d.)
magic lantern – techniques of use – dissolving views
Magic Lantern Narrowboat Theatre
Double lantern (magic or optical lantern, n.d.)
Dissolver (slide changing mechanism, n.d.)
Argand lamp (oil-based illuminant, c.1783)
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