Film Hub South West, a blog on the Bristol-based cultural initiative Watershed, reported on A Million Pictures’ workshop #4 in Exeter. Read  Tara Judah’s reflections on the Magic Lantern and her personal account of witnessing lantern shows on the blogs on Watershed.

Three perspectives on our conference form the article in the journal of our Associated Partner at the Magic Lantern Society. Read the article by Richard Crangle, Ine van Dooren and Lydia Jakobs in The Magic Lantern #13 from December 2017 (pages 12-13).

The exhibition Light. The magic lantern and digital imaging is still open until end of January at Museu del Cinema in Girona. Local, regional and national press has covered the exhibition or events related to it. El Punt Diari published a full page article about life models. There has been also some on-line international articles…

Jeroen Splinter, intern at A Million Pictures, wrote a piece about his discoveries when working with the lantern slide collections held at the film related collections at EYE Filminstitute, The Netherlands. Jeroen Splinter digitised advertising lantern slides that were shown in cinemas before the film screening started. Often, these slides advertised local bars and restaurants….

Issue 03/2017 of the Tijdschrift van het Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (“Journal of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands”) features an article on the A Million Pictures research on lantern slides. The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) issues this journal three times a year. It shares news about Cultural Heritage and…

The exhibition ‘Light!’ at the Cinema Museum Girona was featured as news item in the Catalan television Televisió 3. Director Jordi Pons explains the historical used of the magic lantern. Some slides of the collection are also shown in movement – an excellent case of dissemination! Watch the clip La llanterna màgica: el cinema abans…

The daily newspaper “El Punt Avui” reported on 1 December 2016 about the discoveries of educational lantern slides in the former archives of a high school in Girona. The researchers from the research team Girona discovered five movable slides that were used in education by the local high school. Read the online version of the…

The filmscreening An Evening with Sarah that took place as one of the public activities of our 3rd Workshop The Magic Lantern Today, is reported in H ART Magazinenumber 162. H ART Magazine isdedicated to contemporary Arts in Belgium and the surroundings and issued every three weeks.

The edition of 2 November 2016 of the Gazette van Antwerpen, featured an article about the Exhibition Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson Brillant at Antwerp Museum for Contemporary Arts (M HKA). Sarah Vanagt created this installation as part of the activities of the Research Team Antwerp. Read the online version of the article or the…

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