More commonly known as "magic lanterns," these projectors were the ancestors of the motion picture projector, the 35mm slide projector, filmstrips, and even the PowerPoint presentation. Using lenses ...

The Magic Lantern museum is the world’s only repository of the earliest projectors I’m not sure what I was looking up on the internet when I found it. With a name like a Disney theme-park ride, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, we've heard an awful lot about something called Magic Lantern, although generally as a piece of software, not in reference to the historical projection device. The original Magic Lantern – ...

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 ...