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For his 1950 film Rabbit’s Moon (not completed and released until 1971), Anger used an 18th century magic lantern from the Cinematheque’s collection and 35mm film stock left over from an UNESCO shoot in Paris.
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Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
Reading a comic book as God intended is a simple pleasure and as such, our precious pictorial pamphlet, like vaudeville and the magic lantern, is just the sort of thing that gets crushed in the gears of progress.
—Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
Starting in the late 1800s and continuing well into the next century, New York newspapers used a vast array of floodlights, magic lantern displays, stereopticon projections, and other dazzling visual pyrotechnics to announce results on election night.
—Mike Conway, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2020
As technology progressed, the magic lantern, an early projector prototype, emerged that used pictures and paintings.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 11 June 2021
Follow the magic lantern to the hottest Bedouin bar west of the Sahara Desert to chill, drink and dance.
—Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
The Museum of Fine Art’s has created its own phantasmagoria, an early 19th-century entertainment for thrill-seekers featuring hair-raising sounds and moving images cast by magic lanterns.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
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Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
Reading a comic book as God intended is a simple pleasure and as such, our precious pictorial pamphlet, like vaudeville and the magic lantern, is just the sort of thing that gets crushed in the gears of progress.
—Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
Starting in the late 1800s and continuing well into the next century, New York newspapers used a vast array of floodlights, magic lantern displays, stereopticon projections, and other dazzling visual pyrotechnics to announce results on election night.
—Mike Conway, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2020
As technology progressed, the magic lantern, an early projector prototype, emerged that used pictures and paintings.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 11 June 2021
Follow the magic lantern to the hottest Bedouin bar west of the Sahara Desert to chill, drink and dance.
—Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
The Museum of Fine Art’s has created its own phantasmagoria, an early 19th-century entertainment for thrill-seekers featuring hair-raising sounds and moving images cast by magic lanterns.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
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“Magic lantern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magic%20lantern. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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