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[29] 100 lantern slides depicting Christian missionary activity around the world, all of which have been digitised [30] and are available to view online. [31] University of Sheffield: The University Library, Special Collections Department Sheffield Beet Lantern Slide Collection. [32] Around 2,500 lantern slides on a wide range of subjects.
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In 1905 Keystone View Company began its Educational Department, selling views and glass lantern slides (the 4 x 3.25 inch ancestors of the better-known 2 x 2 inch slides containing transparencies on film, which eventually replaced them) to schools throughout the country. They also produced lantern slide projection equipment.
The Indian Picture Opera is a magic lantern slide show created by photographer Edward S. Curtis in the early 20th century.Curtis is best known for his work documenting Native American tribes through his 20-volume book series, The North American Indian, which featured around 2,400 photographs along with detailed ethnological and linguistic studies of the tribes of the American West.
Bamforth & Co Ltd was started in 1870 by James Bamforth, a portrait photographer in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.In 1883 he began to specialise in making lantern slides. [1] In 1898 the company started making silent monochrome films with the Riley Brothers of Bradford, West Yorkshire, who had been making films since 1896.
a snow effect slide can add snow to another slide (preferably of a winter scene) by moving a flexible loop of material pierced with tiny holes in front of one of the lenses of a double or triple lantern. [65] Mechanical slides with abstract special effects include: Slide with a fantoccini trapeze artist and a chromatrope border design (c. 1880)
Chromatrope, double rackwork animated slide. United Kingdom, 2nd half 19th century. Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin. A chromatrope is a type of magic lantern slide that produces dazzling, colorful geometrical patterns set in motion by rotating two painted glass discs in opposite directions, originally with a double pulley mechanism but later usually with a rackwork mechanism.
Henry Michael John Underhill (1855–1920) was an amateur scientist, artist, photographer and grocer from Oxford, England. [1]Underhill is best known for his hand-painted and photographic lantern slides which illustrate a variety of subjects including entomology, natural history, prehistoric British archaeology and folk tales.