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Learn about the magic lantern, an early image projector that used transparent slides and a light source. Discover its origins, development, types, slides, light sources, and precursors.
Nov 5, 2014 · A short film about the history and effects of the magic lantern, a pre-cinema technology that projected animated pictures on a screen. Watch authentic items from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia collection.
Learn how the Laterna Magica, or Magic Lantern, changed the way people viewed the world with its simple slide projector and limelight. Discover the origins, uses and legacy of this device from the 15th to the 19th Century.
The magic lantern is a visual device that preceded cinematographic apparatus and device projectors. It was a dark camera that received images from the outside and visualized them inside with an inverse process. Characteristics. How the magic lantern works. Who invented it. History. How to make a homemade magic lantern. Characteristics.
LUCERNA is an online resource on the magic lantern, an early slide projector invented in the 17th century. For more than 350 years the magic lantern has represented and fed into every aspect of human life and every part of the world. It is still used today, both in its original form and through direct descendants like the modern data projector.
Thomas Walgensten was the first person to use the term Laterna Magica. Walgensten not only realised the technical and artistic possibilities of the Magic Lantern, but also its economic potential, travelling round Europe demonstrating and selling them.
Ingmar Bergman. "The Magic Lantern", 1. The University of Chicago Press, 2021Originally published in Sweden as Laterna Magica by Norstedts Norlag.© Ingmar Be...
