magic-lantern

Peep-show boxes and magic-lantern shows had already emerged—entertainments that, like Daguerre's diorama, would be displaced by new protocinematic devices and eventually by cinema.

A Small World After All Kristin M. Jones 2011

"The boy has seen slides of famous paintings in some magic-lantern exhibition."

Chapter 6 2010

Peep-show boxes and magic-lantern shows had already emerged—entertainments that, like Daguerre's diorama, would be displaced by new protocinematic devices and eventually by cinema.

A Small World After All Kristin M. Jones 2011

Radical though it sounds, all this is no more than a modern-day elaboration of what Williams had in mind for the original production of "The Glass Menagerie," in which he called for "magic-lantern" slides to be projected on one wall of the set.

Compelling Stagings That Serve Two Great Plays Well 2009

Web: www. polamuseum.or.jp Hong Kong THEATER Thomas & Friends Live on Stage: The residents of the make-believe television Island of Sodor -- including preschool favorite Thomas the Tank Engine, star of the TV show and a line of toys -- are getting the railway station ready for a magic-lantern festival.

Time Off 2008

Hogle argued that the Gothic Romance dramatized the post-modern condition of simulation, of ghostly 'counterfeits' or hollowed-out signs; Castle pointed out how the experience of simulation was quickly troped as a phantasmagoria (originally a magic-lantern ghost show); while Crary argued that modern patterns of consumption and spectatorship begin with the early-nineteenth century privileging of the sovereign observer.

Article Abstracts 2005

To what extent can the magic-lantern and its associated technologies

Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

The early magic-lantern shows developed as mock exercises in scientific demystification (143).

Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005

After a few moments, it would dissolve, like a view in a magic-lantern; and while I saw some part of it quite plainly, and some faintly, and some not at all, would show me another of the many places I had lately seen, lingering behind it, and coming through it.

Pictures from Italy 2007

He has extinguished that magic-lantern in the brain by which we realize the many-coloured world without.

The Fiction of Chesterton 2007