November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 32m
English

Photography by Michael Thad Carter
Jack Judson reveals the beginnings of the entertainment industry at his Magic Lantern Castle Museum.
The magic lantern was the earliest example of how projection could be used to tell stories. From as early as the 1500s, the large-scale images projected by the magic lantern fascinated people and could make them laugh or cringe while sitting together in a dark room. The magic lantern is the first technology of the entertainment industry, as well as the predecessor to the more mundane PowerPoint presentation.
Collecting magic lanterns became an obsession for Jack Judson ...
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