Other Websites
A Junior Torch Lantern
For book, music, DVD's, electronics, photographic and software.
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Member's Sites
Museums & Collections
Other Useful Sites
Commercial Sites
Member's Sites
Visual Media
Thomas Weynants' website.
Phantasmagoria slides and engravings, street performers,
optical toys & other subjects such as strong men & strong women.
Explanation of different Phantasmagoria techniques. - Optical toys; anamorphic demonstrations, etc..
The site is focusing, both, on pre-cinema & (stereo) photography
A wonderful new addition to the Magic Lantern on the Web.
Füsslin Verlag
A German publisher of excellent reference books on optical toys and the precinema. Looking for information on anamorphic pictures or optical toys like thaumatropes, phenakistascopes, zoetropes etc. - all can be found in the books of the Füsslin Verlag. The current book title "Laterna Magica - Magic Lantern, Vol. 1" by Deac Rossell - also a member of this Society - is published in a bilingual English/German edition.
The American Magic Lantern Theater
Delightful opening page. The site contains a useful history of the Lantern with some good images.
Terry Borton is the Director of The American Magic-Lantern Theater.
You've seen the Site now see the show!
Michael Lawlor
Michael focuses on Canadian Magic Lantern Traveloges and how slide images were used to attract tourists and immigrants to a developing nation. He prepares prints for exhibition and sale, and presents Magic Lantern Slide Lectures on Canadian topics.
The Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive
Andrew Gill's Ebay shop sells prints from his slide collection. The
available images include themes (railways, children, 1840s county maps,
mining, sport, illuminated biblical texts etc.) as well as UK cities, towns
and villages.
Professor Mervyn Heard
The combined purpose of this humble site is to promote the work of 'Professor' Mervyn Heard (international lantern showman, philosopher and people's friend) and to dispel a few ill-founded rumours about that ancient, much misunderstood, frequently weird and wonderful form of pre-cinema, pictorial entertainment of which he is the prime exhibitor.
Bring the Museum to You
Rosemary Gill's new website.
Visit Rosemary's site to find out how Magic Lanterns and Toys can be used in education.
Plus a delightful little lantern show on the home page.
Laterna Magica
Herman Bollaert's new site about the Lanterna Magica Galanteeshow
Very dashing, like its owner.
Equip yourself with the latest Flash plug-in to enjoy this site.
It's a bit slow to down-load on a dial-up connection, but be patient, there is a splendid little show for you to enjoy.
The Projection Box
"The Projection Box is committed to publishing new research and archive documents in the subjects of pre-cinema, early film and optical recreations...."
Stephen Herbert and Mo Heard
Lots of good things to enjoy
Priscus
Mark Butterworth's site offering fine quality prints of Scotland, Australia and New Zealand.
Taken from original magic lantern slide photographs.
Grand Illusions
George Auckland and Hendrik Ball's site - lots of interesting optical material and items for sale. Watch the videos!
Illuminago
Ludwig Vogl-Bienek and Karin Bienek's smart new website.
Lots of good things to see, even if your German is not so good, including a "visit" to
Karin and Ludwig's shop in historical Limburg an der Lahn.
Derek Greenacre's Magic Lantern site
"A Thrill In The Dark. Victorian Magic Lantern Shows"
An excellent introduction to the Magic Lantern and Lantern Slides.
Lots of good images, well worth a visit.
Eric Foxley's Magic Lantern Site
Useful site with images and references to the Magic Lantern Society.
Peter Stibbons' Magic Lantern Site
A site with plans for many good things to come.
Some information about the Randall-Salter Collection.
If you're visiting Norfolk, England you can still sometimes catch presentations of the
Randall-Salter Lantern show.
Mike Bartley and Janet Tamblin's Site
Lots of excellent photos of Mike and Janet's various Lantern and Puppet shows.
Dolly Whilems and Derek Adams' Magic Lantern Site
Dissolving views, animated slipper slides, some photographic slides of Java.
Excellent piece on Phantasmagoria.
Pierre Patau and Elisabeth Calley's Site
Games, Juvenilia, Pre-cinema, Magic, Movable books
Established in the world famous Portobello market in London since 1982.
Mark Butterworth
Mark's site offering a History of Astronomical Magic Lantern Slides. There are also details of his lantern lectures and writing on The Magic Lantern.
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Museum Sites
Deutsches Filmmuseum
The German Film Museum
Frankfurt am Main
The Museum of the Cinema
Girona
The collection of Tomàs Mallol
It is one of the few museums where you can journey through the 500 years of the history of images.
An excellent site in Spanish, French and English
The Museum of Pre cinema
The Minici Zotti Collection in English
A small but perfectly formed site, giving information about the Museum, a brief description of the Lantern and Lantern Slide, and some delightful animations.
The Bill Douglas Collection
Exeter, England
"Housing the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection, the Bill Douglas Centre forms the most comprehensive resource for the historical study of popular culture of any British university."
A very good site hosted by the University of Exeter.
Magic Lantern Castle Museum
Home page with a brief history of the Lantern and detailed information about the museum.
Jack Judson; CEO, Director, Curator, Historian (technology), Owner. Past President,
The Magic Lantern Society, U.S. and Canada.
National Museum of Photography Film and Television
Bradford, England
Lots of information about the Museum
The McCord Museum of Canadian History
A delightful site featuring images from their collection, imaginatively structured web pages allow you to watch a complete slide show (with reading if you want) or create your own slide sequence.
Smithsonian
Material about Lanterns, pre Cinema and Pioneering British photographer Edweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
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Other useful Sites
The Magic Lantern Society of The United States and Canada
Site introducing the US Society. Aimed at enthusiasts living in the USA and Canada
Toverlantaarn
A delightful site in Dutch and English, including some excellent images and a nice video (in Dutch)
The Collectors Weekly
The Collectors Weekly is a resource for collectors and people who love antiques. Their goal is to build a great place to explore and learn about collecting, and a showcase for the passion and knowledge of collectors everywhere. More info at: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/about/about.php. Check out the latest information on magic lanterns on ebay at
Loek Raemakers
Small site in Dutch and English, includes the earliest illustration of a Magic Lantern 1420 AD
Professor Clark's Virtual Magic Lantern Show
An excellent site with lots of good things to look at and read. You will find whole shows with text and slides. Some of the images are quite large so the pages are a bit slow to download.
"Professor Clarke" displays a delightful degree of MADNESS. Enjoy.
de Luikerwaal
Claims to be the one and only magic lantern site in the Netherlands (Dutch and English versions). All about the magic lantern. "A mine of information, nice stories and useful data for collectors".
You even learn the meaning of the site's name 'de Luikerwaal'
The Amazing Ascent of Mount Robson
A Magic Lantern Slide Show "The Amazing Ascent of Mount Robson by the Alpine Club of Canada, 1924" presented by Glenbow Museum.
The Glenbow Museum is located in the heart of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Janet Penny's Bosnia Slides
Some years ago Janet found some glass plate slides in a battered box at a junk market. They were from a country very far away, and at the time, was at war. She bought the slides.....
...........now read the rest of this fascinating story.
Della Porta
Giambattista della (John Baptist) Porta (1537?-1615), was a Neapolitan scholar of notable ability who had devoted great attention to the study of natural and physical science. This is very good stuff.
Dead Media Society
Everything you could want to know about anything (dead), if you could only find it.
Huge, fascinating and mostly not about lanterns.
Several (living) members of the Magic Lantern Society have made contributions.
See if you can spot them at the next meeting and challenge such people:
"You are a living member of the Dead Media Society and I claim £5",
which is a pretty dead by-line these days.
Photographer to the Tsar
The fabulous colour photographs of the "Photographer to the Tsar":
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
In the very early years of the twentieth century, long before colour film was invented,
Prokudin-Gorskii took many colour photographs of the Russian Empire.
He projected them using a Tri-unial Magic Lantern.
See some of them, and how they were made. Fantastic!
Magic Lantern Rose
'Magic Lantern' requires insightful placement in the garden, because the blooms are so delicate in colour that she may get lost against brighter stars. You guessed it, there is a rose called Magic Lantern, and why not?
Which brings me nicely on to........
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Commercial Sites
This section is not an endorsement of the following sites and services by the Magic Lantern Society, but is presented for information only.
Endici have a comprehensive selection of magic lantern slides and magic lanterns, from early hand painted to more recent topographical slides.
The Malby Archives
The online archives of the Malby Collections; unique libraries of images that represent the recently rediscovered work of the Victorian photographic firm, Reginald A. Malby & Co.
They were leading horticultural photographers of the Georgian and Victorian Era and Official Photographers for The Royal Horticultural Society between 1910-1940. The site includes a recently uncovered library of hundreds of Malby images in Glass Magic Lantern Slide
format, all between 100 - 70 years old, and exquisitely hand-coloured.
Photographica
Early & Antique Cameras, Magic Lanterns and slides, Pre Cinema, etc
A commercial site with lots of equipment for sale.
Lionel Hughes, Portobello Road London
Vintage Camera Online
Links, eBooks, information about collecting vintage and antique cameras.
Sunny Hillside Antiques
Al Kaske's with examples of lanterns, slides, mechanical slides and accessories.
Dr. Toer's Amazing Magic Lantern Show.
Buy the Video.
