Hall's illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, dissolving lanterns, and stereopticons : for societies, parlor entertainment, panoramas, and public exhibitions. (1873?)

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u HALL ft ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF No. 14. Hall's Improved Dissolving View Apparatus. No. 14 represents our Improved Dissolving View Apparatus, for exhibitions or parlor use, fitted with argand burners. It consists ©f two lanterns, with rack-work adjustment, mounted on a stand, with dissolving apparatus. In this arrangement the views are exhibited with clearness and brilliancy on an opaque or transparent screen, 8 feet in diameter, by improved fountain and argand lamps and reflectors. It is simple in use, and well adapted for private exhibitions. Price, $50. We can confidently recommend 1he apparatus at $50, as being of the most improved construction, and particularly adapted for the purposes of instruction or amusement where the expense of the oxy-hydrogen or oxy-calcium cannot, be undertaken. The enchanting optical effect, termed Dissolving Views, is pro- duced by means of two phantasmagoria lanterns, so arranged on a stand that the centre of the disks or pictures projected by each are coincident, and the dissolving or blending of the pictures is effected by a contrivance in front of the two lanterns, which grad- ually shuts off the image thrown from one lantern, whilst the other becomes gradually clearer, until a perfect picture is seen on the disk. A fresh picture being nut into the darkened lantern, the action is reversed. *