Machine which corresponds to prototype of slide projector " Magic Lamp Machine" projects images drawn on glass onto curtains etc. using lamps and lenses. According to John Plunket of Exeter College, ...

Netflix didn't exist during the Victorian era, of course, but people living during the 1800s and early 1900s had another way to binge-watch: the "magic lantern." According to new research, these early ...

Similar to a slide projector, but with more alluring subject matter than mitosis and meiosis, magic lanterns were the 19th-century entertainment. A show at the Museum of the City of New York brought ...

One thing you probably won’t ever find at a shopping mall toy store is a child-sized digital projector. A toy cell phone - perhaps - but no child wants to rush home from daycare to play “PowerPoint.” ...

The magic lantern is an equipment that represents the first film projector' in the world and was made famous in Maharashtra by the Patwardhan brothers, the itinerant projectionists, in the 19th ...

A double magic lantern projector that's been converted from oil to electric lamps. The dual projector allows for one slide to be shown while another is changed. Printed on front and sides: "Benj. Pike ...

The hum of a 104-year-old projector and the voice of historian Mike Zahs were the only sounds that could be heard as the audience looked at images that were more than a century old in a dark room in ...

LONG before the birth of the motion picture, audiences worldwide were entertained by magic lantern shows that brought popular stories, temperance tales and ghosts and ghouls to vivid life. Magic ...

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The new Springer book, The Cinema in Flux, by lifetime innovator Lenny Lipton, explores the history of cinema technology by upending the conception that the medium began at the end of the 19th century ...

PANAJI, India (Reuters Life!) - Long before the lights, cameras and the action came to Bollywood, a family armed with a "magic lantern" breathed life into stories from Hindu mythology to audiences ...