A classic 'good night' for #MottoSlideMonday, courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection

An extraordinary new attraction at Efteling Park, Netherlands: De Man met de Toverlantaarn - "The Man with the Magic Lantern" www.efteling.com/nl/park/attr...

Save the Date! Our mega, 50th anniversary convention will be held at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, 9th-11th October, 2026! Put it in your diary now - you'll not want to miss this one...

A lovely, crisp 'Good Night' for #MottoSlideMonday, courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection

A charming donkey taking a drink during a #magiclantern show interval. Note the bird - Victorians couldn't resist a pun... #mottoslidemonday

The amazing Oddities and Rarities Festival, this year in Ghent, Belgium...

Lanterna Magica Galantee Show Do 6 November 2025 17u en 20u Huis van Alijn Gent

More fabulous kaleidoscopic thrills from the @MartinGilbertCollection for #chromatropethursday

A Cthulu-inspired magic lantern lecture by TL Wiswell for Halloween at All Good Bookshop, London...

A charming ship's bell "Good Night" for #mottoslidemonday

At Last! An incredible new Magic Lantern Illuminant invented by the amazing Robin Palmer! Robin demonstrated this light at the @magiclantern_society with all the lights on and sunshine outside, the projected image was dazzling

Un petit "Bonsoir" pour #MottoslideMonday

A reminder to all @magiclantern_society members that our Autumn Meeting will take place this Saturday, 18th October 2025, at Swedenbourg House. Details in the members' area of the website.

Magic Lantern Society Awards 2025 Passionate about storytelling, historical media or visual performance? The Magic Lantern Society is seeking artists, performers, researchers, animators, film makers and creative writers to help bring the magic lantern to life. www.magiclantern.org.uk/awards/

A curtain "good night" for #MottoSlideMonday courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection

Genuine triple (three-storeyed) lanterns are vanishingly rare - perhaps thirty left in the world. Many of them are in museums. A decent alternative for showing three and four part #dissolvingviews combines a biunial (two-storeyed) and single lantern, carefully registered to exactly coincide views.

"It gives me very great delight..." A delightful Edwardian greeting for #mottoslidemonday courtesy of the #martingilbertcollection

A lovely chromotrope from the #MartinGilbertCollection for #ChromotropeThursday

A classic, ruby-red "Farewell" for #MottoSlideMonday

An unusual, stencilled example for #MottoSlideMonday, courtesy of the #MartinGilbertCollection

Hooray! It's #ChromatropeThursday, featuring another humdinger from the #MartinGilbertCollection

A charming late summer wreath for #mottoslidemonday courtesy of the magnificent #martingilbertcollection

Some splendid 'artificial fireworks' from the #MartinGilbertCollection for #ChromatropeThursday

A wonderful #homemade #magiclantern slide, presumably for something strict, like Sunday School, for #MottoSlideModay, courtesy of the fabulous #MartinGilbertCollection

A charming lever slide of a goat and his girl. Origin unknown, perhaps it's from a fairy tale set.

A small girl persuades a dog to pose for her camera in this 4-part #magiclantern photographic slide set

An extremely popular (there seems to be one in every collection) but utterly baffling #slippingslide. According to Australian academic Patrick Spedding, it was a hilarious Victorian meme, used prolifically in postcards, badges and, magic lantern slides. patrickspedding.blogspot.com/2012/06/when...

Pancks the cat investigating what is probably the most famous Victorian #magiclantern slide. 'Man Eating Rat' (aka Ratcatcher) is usually (but not always) a mechanical slide where a sleeping man (sometimes a chef) swallows rats. Thank you to @badvictorianist.bsky.social for the movie...

A patriotic #magiclantern slide for #mottoslidemonday

Original medieval stained glass windows at St Mary's Church, Fairford. None of these guys would look out of place in a classic 18th/19th century phantasmagoria #magiclantern show

For Ladies Only? A few copies of Jenny Hammerton's now-extremely rare book about the 1920s movie magazine Eve's Review available at the @magiclanternsoc.bsky.social online shop for the ridiculously low price of £7.50 +P&P Grab 'em while you can, kids... www.magiclantern.org.uk/sales/public...

Belgian lanternist Eleonora Paklons speaks at the @magiclantern_society Special Meeting in the Netherlands, 2024

A timely warning from lanternist Jeremy Brooker, for #MottoSideMonday

Today's #ChromatropeThursday features a dramatic modern usage of original Victorian kaleidoscopic images in the Netherlands at Haarlem's Teylers Museum's extraordinary exhibition De Grote Illusie, 2024

A #magiclantern #leverslide for Lammas (okay, so it's three days late, hey...)

This hashtag section seems to be turning into #WoundedBirdThursdays but although this geometric chromatrope has one hell of a smash in it, it's still intriguing and fun so it's a contender for #ChromatropeThursdays

We mainly wish each other the compliments of the season at Christmas time, but the Victorians celebrated every season and so shall we on this #MottoSlideMonday

Another wounded bird for #ChromotropThursday, with multiple smashes in one glass, but proving even poorly #magiclantern slides can be beautiful

"Servants of Light", another great book from the #MagicLanternSociety back catalogue. Find all our publications for sale here: www.magiclantern.org.uk/sales/

My, my, #MottoSlideMonday is round again. Alas, RGB screen colour does no favours to the rich red glass background on this splendid announcement slide.

A wounded bird for #ChromotropeThursday with a small smash in its revolving lens. I intend to place a small, falling figure over the hole, Mad Men-style...

A lovely, clean "Good Evening", with rusticated lettering and Victorian favourite sweet briar/eglantine rose for #MottoSlideMonday

Ah...#ChromotropeThursday, it just keeps coming round, not unlike this unusual circles-within-circles example from the late 19th century.

Fewer than two weeks to our Summer Meeting: IN PERSON, Saturday, 19th July, Lacey Green, Bucks, details in website members' area. Not a member? There's still time to join, at a special introductory price! Take a look: www.magiclantern.org.uk/join/ Image (c)Chelthams Library lucerna.exeter.ac.uk

A pretty, straight-up Welcome for #MottoSlideMonday

Good heavens - is it #ChromotropeThursday already? This one came with only one glass - it went round but did not create the kaleidoscopic effect. A quick reverse image on some acetate and a cut-down yoghurt pot did the trick...

A beautiful #mottoslide that although static, has an air of movement about it thanks to clever crosshatching. #mottoslidemonday

A smaller-than-average but, bright, breezy, charming piece of whimsy for #ChromatropeThursday.

Read about cavorting skeletons and other strange illusions in "The Magic Lantern Dancer", the latest book by @magiclantern_society. Find this publication and many others at our bookshop www.magiclantern.org.uk/sales/