The Magic Lantern Society

A curtain "good night" for #MottoSlideMonday courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection

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

A lovely chromotrope from the #MartinGilbertCollection for #ChromotropeThursday

A classic, ruby-red "Farewell" for #MottoSlideMonday

An unusual, stencilled example for #MottoSlideMonday, courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection

Hooray! It's #ChromatropeThursday, featuring another humdinger from the #MartinGilbertCollection

A charming late summer wreath for #mottoslidemonday courtesy of the magnificent #martingilbertcollection

Some splendid 'artificial fireworks' from the #MartinGilbertCollection for #ChromatropeThursday

A wonderful #homemade #magiclantern slide, presumably for something strict, like Sunday School, for #MottoSlideModay, courtesy of the fabulous #MartinGilbertCollection

A charming lever slide of a goat and his girl. Origin unknown, perhaps it's from a fairy tale set.

A small girl persuades a dog to pose for her camera in this 4-part #magiclantern photographic slide set

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...

Pancks 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...

A patriotic #magiclantern slide for #mottoslidemonday

Original medieval stained glass windows at St Mary's Church, Fairford. None of these guys would look out of place in a classic 18th/19th century phantasmagoria #magiclantern show

For Ladies Only? A few copies of Jenny Hammerton's now-extremely rare book about the 1920s movie magazine Eve's Review available at the @magiclanternsoc.bsky.social online shop for the ridiculously low price of £7.50 +P&P Grab 'em while you can, kids...

www.magiclantern.org.uk/sales/public...

Belgian lanternist Eleonora Paklons speaks at the @magiclantern_society Special Meeting in the Netherlands, 2024

A timely warning from lanternist Jeremy Brooker, for #MottoSideMonday

Today's #ChromatropeThursday features a dramatic modern usage of original Victorian kaleidoscopic images in the Netherlands at Haarlem's Teylers Museum's extraordinary exhibition De Grote Illusie, 2024

A #magiclantern #leverslide for Lammas (okay, so it's three days late, hey...)

This hashtag section seems to be turning into #WoundedBirdThursdays but although this geometric chromatrope has one hell of a smash in it, it's still intriguing and fun so it's a contender for #ChromatropeThursdays

We mainly wish each other the compliments of the season at Christmas time, but the Victorians celebrated every season and so shall we on this #MottoSlideMonday

Another wounded bird for #ChromotropThursday, with multiple smashes in one glass, but proving even poorly #magiclantern slides can be beautiful

"Servants of Light", another great book from the #MagicLanternSociety back catalogue. Find all our publications for sale here:
www.magiclantern.org.uk/sales/

My, my, #MottoSlideMonday is round again. Alas, RGB screen colour does no favours to the rich red glass background on this splendid announcement slide.

A wounded bird for #ChromotropeThursday with a small smash in its revolving lens. I intend to place a small, falling figure over the hole, Mad Men-style...

A lovely, clean "Good Evening", with rusticated lettering and Victorian favourite sweet briar/eglantine rose for #MottoSlideMonday

Ah...#ChromotropeThursday, it just keeps coming round, not unlike this unusual circles-within-circles example from the late 19th century.

Do, do! It's great fun and this next meeting will be really good as there will be workshops!