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Welcome to the wonderful world of pre-cinema Big Screen Entertainment, via the mysteries of the magic lantern. Join us at www.https://www.magiclantern.org.uk
A classic 'good night' for #MottoSlideMonday, courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection
24.11.2025 08:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An extraordinary new attraction at Efteling Park, Netherlands: De Man met de Toverlantaarn - "The Man with the Magic Lantern"
www.efteling.com/nl/park/attr...
Save the Date! Our mega, 50th anniversary convention will be held at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, 9th-11th October, 2026! Put it in your diary now - you'll not want to miss this one...
18.11.2025 11:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A lovely, crisp 'Good Night' for #MottoSlideMonday, courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection
17.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A charming donkey taking a drink during a #magiclantern show interval. Note the bird - Victorians couldn't resist a pun... #mottoslidemonday
10.11.2025 08:56 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The amazing Oddities and Rarities Festival, this year in Ghent, Belgium...
02.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lanterna Magica
Galantee Show
Do 6 November 2025
17u en 20u
Huis van Alijn Gent
More fabulous kaleidoscopic thrills from the @MartinGilbertCollection for #chromatropethursday
30.10.2025 07:36 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A Cthulu-inspired magic lantern lecture by TL Wiswell for Halloween at All Good Bookshop, London...
29.10.2025 07:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A charming ship's bell "Good Night" for #mottoslidemonday
27.10.2025 07:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At Last! An incredible new Magic Lantern Illuminant invented by the amazing Robin Palmer!
Robin demonstrated this light at the @magiclantern_society with all the lights on and sunshine outside, the projected image was dazzling
Un petit "Bonsoir" pour #MottoslideMonday
20.10.2025 08:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A reminder to all @magiclantern_society members that our Autumn Meeting will take place this Saturday, 18th October 2025, at Swedenbourg House. Details in the members' area of the website.
16.10.2025 07:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Magic Lantern Society Awards 2025
Passionate about storytelling, historical media or visual performance? The Magic Lantern Society is seeking artists, performers, researchers, animators, film makers and creative writers to help bring the magic lantern to life.
www.magiclantern.org.uk/awards/
A curtain "good night" for #MottoSlideMonday courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection
06.10.2025 07:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Genuine triple (three-storeyed) lanterns are vanishingly rare - perhaps thirty left in the world. Many of them are in museums.
A decent alternative for showing three and four part #dissolvingviews combines a biunial (two-storeyed) and single lantern, carefully registered to exactly coincide views.
"It gives me very great delight..." A delightful Edwardian greeting for #mottoslidemonday courtesy of the #martingilbertcollection
29.09.2025 06:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A lovely chromotrope from the #MartinGilbertCollection for #ChromotropeThursday
25.09.2025 06:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A classic, ruby-red "Farewell" for #MottoSlideMonday
22.09.2025 06:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An unusual, stencilled example for #MottoSlideMonday, courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection
15.09.2025 07:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hooray! It's #ChromatropeThursday, featuring another humdinger from the #MartinGilbertCollection
11.09.2025 07:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A charming late summer wreath for #mottoslidemonday courtesy of the magnificent #martingilbertcollection
08.09.2025 06:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some splendid 'artificial fireworks' from the #MartinGilbertCollection for #ChromatropeThursday
04.09.2025 08:34 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A wonderful #homemade #magiclantern slide, presumably for something strict, like Sunday School, for #MottoSlideModay, courtesy of the fabulous #MartinGilbertCollection
01.09.2025 06:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A charming lever slide of a goat and his girl. Origin unknown, perhaps it's from a fairy tale set.
23.08.2025 08:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A small girl persuades a dog to pose for her camera in this 4-part #magiclantern photographic slide set
22.08.2025 07:27 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
An extremely popular (there seems to be one in every collection) but utterly baffling #slippingslide. According to Australian academic Patrick Spedding, it was a hilarious Victorian meme, used prolifically in postcards, badges and, magic lantern slides. patrickspedding.blogspot.com/2012/06/when...
20.08.2025 21:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pancks the cat investigating what is probably the most famous Victorian #magiclantern slide. 'Man Eating Rat' (aka Ratcatcher) is usually (but not always) a mechanical slide where a sleeping man (sometimes a chef) swallows rats. Thank you to @badvictorianist.bsky.social for the movie...
19.08.2025 06:39 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A patriotic #magiclantern slide for #mottoslidemonday
18.08.2025 08:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
