No, not a mistake! The Magic Lantern has been popular for several centuries. People have been fascinated by moving pictures of some sort or another for a long time :)
I have been fascinated with Magic Lantern use because of references in many books from the 1800s that I read. Also in SteamPunk and even the Old West here in the USA it can be fun to imagine.
Great little film, well edited, produced, and presented ~ I look forward to seeing your uploads ~ Thank you for preserving our past ~ A Merry Christmas, to everyone at bfi ~ and all the very best for the new year ~ Geoff
The magic lantern pictures look like animated Gifs. I LOVED those, especially the ones of nature and the seasons. Thank you for posting! :-)
No, not a mistake! The Magic Lantern has been popular for several centuries. People have been fascinated by moving pictures of some sort or another for a long time :)
I have been fascinated with Magic Lantern use because of references in many books from the 1800s that I read. Also in SteamPunk and even the Old West here in the USA it can be fun to imagine.
I’m here from Red Dead Redemption 2. I saw a magic lantern show in Valentine, and this interested me.
Great little film, well edited, produced, and presented ~ I look forward to seeing your uploads ~ Thank you for preserving our past ~ A Merry Christmas, to everyone at bfi ~ and all the very best for the new year ~ Geoff
Very fascinating
Really interesting! Thank you!
Well done! Amazing! Thank you.
The more elaborate Magic Lanterns could create visual effects similar to the screen-savors on PC monitors
I liked enjoyed your show , love the music choice
I enjoyed that very much. Has - does - Mervyn Heard ever present(ed) magic lantern shows at BFI Southbank or associated venues?
really interesting!
Thanks to the glacial speed of youtube's servers it only took about 20 minutes to watch an 8 minute clip.
wow...
Watching this in 2023 and wondering if the Eddy siblings used a magic lantern for their seances in Chittenden Vt.
It would be great if you acknowledged the composer of the soundtrack, so I'll ask: Who is the composer?
"..end of the seventeenth century"???
- shurely shome mishtake?