Eric's Victorian Magic Lantern Website |
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Magic lantern shows would often use two lanterns to enable the fading of one picture on top of another. Some sample slides![]()
![]() Long stories (taking 40 minutes, according to the script) involved moralistic tales such as that of Gabriel Grub in which a grave digger drinks in a cemetery one Christmas Eve, and goblins appear (faded in on a second lantern) who take him down to hell. The Chief Goblin shows him scenes from his youth, so he repents of his sins, and returns. |
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Eric runs the Dunkirk Arts Centre and manages web sites for Chaturangan, Foresters, Greenwood, Grant Publisher and Freds Folks. |