Comments on: Roll Up For Magic Lantern Shows! https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/21/roll-up-for-magic-lantern-shows/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Chris F https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/21/roll-up-for-magic-lantern-shows/#comment-79261 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:35:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=77080#comment-79261 Hey Gary… Whilst musing over your comments about the magic lantern slides, I suddenly remembered that my brother-in-law has a genuine magic lantern projector hidden away in his garage. It has been converted to take an electric bulb but still works… He doesn’t have any slides but I don’t think that he would sell it. Maybe we could organise some sort of get together to view the slides as long as they fit his projector. Let me know through our host if you are interested…

]]> By: Moy Paterson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/21/roll-up-for-magic-lantern-shows/#comment-78846 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:53:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=77080#comment-78846 These Were Our Dogs made my evening – and raised a few smiles. Gorgeous!

]]> By: Gary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/21/roll-up-for-magic-lantern-shows/#comment-78845 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:41:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=77080#comment-78845 I can remember those old magic lantern shows when I was a child in the 1930’s.
My father used to run these shows in the old Church hall in Old Ford Road, E.3
the projector was lit by limelight, a form of incandescent gas light that was very brilliant, a small chimney on top gave out a thin plume of smoke. The 3″ slides were in 12″ long boxes with a script that was read by the narrator who clicked when each slide had to be changed.
When the war started my father brought all of the slides out to Romford to avoid war damage, unfortunately the projector was too heavy to transport and was left at the Church, it was destroyed when the Church was bombed. I still have these slides and the huge brass lense for the projector. I am trying to locate an old projector in the antique trade so that I can show these old slides, they consist of tours of foreign lands, wildlife and many other subjects.
Gary

]]> By: Jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/21/roll-up-for-magic-lantern-shows/#comment-78772 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:50:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=77080#comment-78772 colin o’brien’s pix of postwar london always remind me of martha quest’s epic walk-about in the first several chapters of The Four Gated City. it was the first time i had ever gotten a sense of what the luftwaffe, and the people of the east end — and the king’s speech — had done.

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Gated-City-Children-Violence/dp/0060976675

]]> By: Graciella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/21/roll-up-for-magic-lantern-shows/#comment-78770 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:21:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=77080#comment-78770 Love the dog video! It’s amazing, when you think people have loved their dogs for centuries. So sad to see all the photos too though. All those people who were living their lives just like you and I are, now all gone 🙁

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