Antique Magic Lantern Slides,'Springtime' Scenes, Hand painted from Germany
This is a set of three antique German Magic Lantern slides which are hand painted.
The slides show various scenes of Springtime which retain wonderful colors.
These can be viewed through a Magic Lantern or other glass slide projector.
Can also be hung or placed under light or in a window which would capture their artistic beauty and detail.
These have been placed in wooden 'frames' allowing them to stand on their own ,however, this is not how they originally were sold.
Each measures 7 3/4" x 2 1/4" x 1/2" with no chips or cracks.
Magic lanterns, also known as optical lanterns, provided one of the most popular forms of entertainment during their heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries, establishing many of the first 2-D special effects. Using an artificial light source and a combination of lenses, these devices enlarged small transparency images or miniature models and projected them onto a wall or screen. While most magic lanterns were designed as simple wooden boxes fitted with a handful of precision brass parts, a few were ornately decorated with exotic painted scenes or engraved metal casings
Prior to 1850, most magic lantern slides were hand-painted on glass, or created using a transfer method to reproduce many copies of a single etching or print. In the middle of the 19th century, however, the development of photographic slides created entirely new uses for the magic lantern, from university lectures to amateur family photo shows.
By the end of the 19th century however, the magic lantern was overtaken by the cinematograph, which projected so-called “living pictures.” Though the magic lantern couldn’t compete with these nascent movies, many of the techniques and tricks developed for its optical projections were adopted for motion pictures, like tracking shots, dissolves, and close-ups. Magic lanterns were soon relegated to being the warm-up act for movies, used to project advertisements before the real shows began. Eventually the apparatus evolved into the automatic photo slide projector, which was popular throughout the 20th century
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