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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821841103321

Titolo

A million pictures : magic lantern slides in the history of learning / / edited by Sarah Dellmann, and Frank Kessler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-86196-956-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Collana

KINtop studies in early cinema ; ; volume 6

Disciplina

371.33522

Soggetti

Photography in education

Slides (Photography)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The white behind the picture: toward a media archaeology of the screen / Erkki Huhtamo.

The many perspectives on 'A Million Pictures' / Sarah Dellmann. - Researching the lantern / Frank Kessler. - A lantern slide journey: 127 years in just five minutes / Ine van Dooren. - Visiting the European neighbours: geographical slide sets of the 'Projecktion für Alle' series / Sarah Dellmann. - The magic lantern at the edge of empire. The experience of dissolving views and phantasmagoria in Colonial Australia / Martyn Jolly. - The 'Battle for Attention' in British lantern shows, 1880-1920 / Joe Kember. - Magic lantern slides by Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii / Nadezhda Stanulevich. - Hand-painted magic lantern slides and the 19th century colourmen Winsor and Newton / Márcia Vilariques ; Vanessa Otero. - The lantern slide, the fabulous tools for early film titling / Claire Dupré la Tour. - Euro-American artefacts as Asian heritage: lantern slides of the China inland mission at Hong Kong Baptist University Library / Anna Grasskamp ; Wing Ki Lee ; Suk Mei Irene Wong. - The magic lantern as an educational tool in late 19th-century Japan seen from the "Magic Lantern Board Game on Education" / Machiko Kusahara. - The collection of magic lantern slides from the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane / Angélique Quillay. - Traces of instructional lantern slide use in two English cities / Richard Crangle. - Making looking: lantern slides at the British Association for



the Advancement of Science, 1850-1920 / Jennifer Tucker. - 'Nothing but Storytellers': from one thousand Royal Geographical Society lantern slides to 'A Million Pictures' / Emily Hayes.