Related Projects
On this section, we inform about other interesting projects about the documentation of magic lantern slides and creative re-uses of lantern heritage. Please send us a link to your initiative!
New Research Project: B-MAGIC. The Magic Lantern and its Cultural Impact as Visual Mass Medium in Belgium (1830-1940)
This project will write the as yet unwritten history of the magic lantern as a mass medium in Belgium. In doing so, it will make an essential contribution to the…
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Cataloguing Lantern Slides in Spanish Heritage Portal
As part of the Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español (Collective Catalogue of Spanish Bibliographical Heritage ), latntern slides that were part of the libraries of Spanish Historical Highschools are…
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Deutsches Bildbandarchiv (“German Film Strip Archive“)
The Deutsches Bildbandarchiv (“German Film Strip Archive”) went online. This online resource documents a selection of German (both East and West) film strips and roll films dating from c. 1910s…
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Lucerna – the Magic Lantern Web Resource
Lucerna is an online resource on the magic lantern. It includes details of slide sets, slide images, readings and other texts related to slide sets, lantern hardware, people and organisations…
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Magic Lantern Research Group on Zotero
Zotero is an open source software to collect, organize, cite, and share research sources. This group provides resources for research on magic lanterns, optical projection and related topics. It includes…
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Media-historical, methodological, and media-technological Principles of the Digitisation of Works in the Historical Art of Projection
With the help of newest procedures and methods of the Digital Humanities, researchers at Trier University develop criteria and tools for digital editions of magic lantern slides and related source…
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Magic Lantern Projects at the University College London
The Museum and Collections’ Blog of UCL documents initiatives of using their magic lantern slide collection. The blog posts include a curator’s reflection on working with this under-researched material. Read…
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Heritage in the Limelight: The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World
The Australian Research Council has funded a this three year project lead by Dr Martyn Jolly at the Australian National University. This project aims to discover and analyse the large…
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Documentation of the national seminar held by the Research School of Humanities and the Arts of the Australian National University on 14 December 2012. This site also features video recordings…
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@MagicLanternSoc: Magic Lantern Society on Twitter
Next to Society news, the Twitter account of the Magic Lantern Society regularly highlights lantern related events and research from around the globe, including the activities of our A Million Pictures project….
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