Magic Lanterns from Girona Cinema Museum
Heritage photography is not only vintage images preserved in archives and old family albums. A lot of experimentation took place in the course of 1800 to fix, visualize and bring to life imagery. The magic lantern was an important part of the history of image projection before cinema and a relevant device in the study of optics and physics. Explore a selection of magic lanterns digitized in 3D from the collections preserved at the Cinema Museum in Girona
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Glass slides for a magic lantern with moving image. It contains an image of a man with a big belly and a demon with a bellows, on a black background. On one side, sliding glass with a metal frame and handle, with a black area to hide the belly, and a leve…
"Double tin magic lantern painted black, with disc shutter on the front to create the effect of chained casting of images or “dissolving views “, with achromatic lens of sliding spotlights, a high-quality condensing lens, an Argand lamp and with cro…
Figures that depict a pair of travelling magic lantern showmen. Throughout the eighteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century, at fairs and markets throughout Europe, wanderers and dealers offered their show, burdened with lanterns, ofte…
Figures that depict a pair of travelling magic lantern showmen. Throughout the eighteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century, at fairs and markets throughout Europe, wanderers and dealers offered their show, burdened with lanterns, ofte…
Lantern for glass plates of maximum width 7 cm. This is one of the most embellished and worked-out models of the Lapierre factory, attractively polychromed with translucent alcohol varnishes. This model of lantern was of the lampascope type, so it used as…
Magic lantern for glass plates with a maximum width of 14 cm with an adjustable lens by a rack system. Includes an alcohol lamp for illumination. This is one of the most popular models of magic lantern produced by Lapierre. It has the same design as a sma…
Lantern for glass plates of maximum width 11 cm. A rare example of a magic lantern for family use. It depicts a polychromed Chinese Mandarin (red, gold, black), with a flue in the form of a wavy cap crowned with a golden crescent. It is the first three-pi…
Magic lantern for 5 cm wide plates for domestic use. Includes and oil lamp for the illumination. It has a ceramic body and beautiful illustrations of children playing, and it's an example of the preponderance of design over the technical quality of th…
Magic lantern slide of the coreutoscope type, which allows the projection of a moving image. Manufactured by the English firm Charles Baker, makers of optical equipment and magic lanterns. The coreutoscope was invented by Lionel Smith Beale around 1866 to…
Extraordinary specimen of magic lantern for phantasmagoria shows (phantoscopes). Wood and metal body with three chimneys, adjustable target and target closing system. Independent foot, with four wooden wheels. Only two more lanterns are known in the world…