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magic lantern: see stereopticon stereopticon (stĕrēŏp`tĭkən), optical projection instrument making multiple use of the magic lantern. ..... Click the link for more information. . magic lantern an early type of slide projector How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art's Darsie Alexander, the show may still raise eyebrows for its unapologetic positing of slide projection as a medium with its own historical set of technological supports (arising from modes of projection beginning with magic lanterns in the seventeenth century) and procedural conventions (the techniques of successive display emerging from both nineteenth-century chronophotography and modern film). The multimedia exhibition ``Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen,'' explores such magical pre-cyberspace gadgets as mirrors, microscopes, dioramas, metamorphic toys and magic lanterns. Illusionists would travel the countryside with their magic lanterns strapped to their backs and would present to their audiences a series of images (ghosts and demons were especially popular) projected onto walls, sheets, or even billows of smoke. |
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