A Million Pictures
Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning
The magic lantern was the most important visual entertainment and means of instruction across nineteenth-century Europe. However, despite its pervasiveness across multiple scientific, educational and popular contexts, magic lantern slides remain under-researched. The project addresses the sustainable preservation of this massive, untapped heritage resource. The findings are compiled in the publication , edited by Prof Frank Kessler (Media and Performance Studies) and Sarah Dellmann.
Slides for the magic or optical lantern were a major tool for knowledge transfer in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schools, universities, the church and many public and private institutions all over the world relied on the lantern for illustrated lectures and demonstrations.
Rich cultural heritage
This volume brings together scholarly research on the educational uses of the optical lantern in different disciplines by international specialists, representing the state of the art of magic lantern research today. In addition, it contains a 鈥渓ab section鈥 with contributions by archivists, curators and performers reflecting on ways to preserve, present and re-use this immensely rich cultural heritage today.
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- Editors: Sarah Dellmann & Frank Kessler
- Publisher: John Libbey
- ISBN: 978-0861967353