Festival and historical event organisers and group programme secretaries can find details of my unique, authentic magic lantern shows and illustrated talks on optical entertainments.
MAGIC LANTERN ARCHIVE
Here you can read over one hundred illustrated articles click through to my YouTube Channel and photo-history booklets on Amazon visit the Keasbury-Gordon Gallery with a selection of remarkable historical photographs from our family archive and purchase twenty-first century NFT photo-art. I have been interested in this field for well over forty years as a showman, collector, author and lecturer and this website brings these various strands together. Universities are undertaking academic research into pre-cinema optical entertainments many people are collecting magic lanterns, slides and antique optical toys and artists and performers are rediscovering Victorian techniques that can delight, amuse and often baffle audiences.
MAGIC LANTERN PROFESSIONAL
Surprisingly perhaps, authentic magic lantern shows are alive and well, with amateur and professional showmen and women performing in many countries. Magic Lantern is not a 'hack', or a modified firmware, it is an independent program that runs alongside Canon's own software. We have created an open framework, licensed under GPL, for developing extensions to the official firmware.
MAGIC LANTERN SOFTWARE
In the late Victorian period, the magic lantern played a significant role in bringing about social change, through slide shows of dramatic moral stories (such as those produced by the temperance movement) and of photographic ‘travel’ slides that enabled audiences to see the world beyond their immediate environs for the first time. Magic Lantern is a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR cameras. It was first aired in 2006, and it was discontinued in 2018.
It mystified, entertained and educated audiences from the 1640s to the 1940s and produced moving images long before the first public demonstration of cinema in 1895. Magic Lantern (Hebrew: ) is a Hebrew/English Bedtime show produced by Technomagia Studios for BabyTV. The magic lantern was the forerunner of the pre-digital slide projector. If you don’t have a Lucerna username and would like to contribute to the project please contact us.Welcome to my Magic Lantern World. If you want to add or edit data you need to log in with your Lucerna username and password. If you have a specific query or can contribute something, please contact us.Īnyone can search and read the data in the Lucerna database. The Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain had been launched. The project is still at an early stage, so you may not find everything you're looking for. Sources used in compiling the LUCERNA data Whinfield Collection, on loan to The Hive, Worcester, are now featured in Lucerna with descriptions and digital images. The magic lantern was the forerunner of the pre-digital slide projector. Lucerna was also a central part of the Million Pictures project.
The Lucerna project is a collaboration between lantern researchers from: LUCERNA includes details of slide sets, slide images, readings and other texts related to slide sets, lantern hardware, people and organisations involved in lantern history, and much more. It is still used today, both in its original form and through direct descendants like the modern data projector. A lantern is simply a projector- but back in the day. LUCERNA is an online resource on the magic lantern, an early slide projector invented in the 17th century.įor more than 350 years the magic lantern has represented and fed into every aspect of human life and every part of the world. The magic lantern is what made the whole history of animation possible.
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