The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (January 1897)

The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. Slum Life.— Many lantern lectures depicting | slum life have lately been given throughout the British Isles, and these appear to have just hit the nail on the head as regards popularity. co ~ od A Nice Present.—Bound volumes of this journal for the past year are now ready, and inay be obtained from our publishers, price 3s., post free 3s. 43d. This, and a copy of our ANNUAL (1s.), will form a very nice and inter esting present for one to give any of his | friends who are beginning to take an interest in lantern matters. m a te Lanterns for Schools. — The Colchester School Board has decided to purchase three magic lanterns, with accessories, at a cost not to exceed thirty-three pounds. > ae baad Eclipse of the Sun.—On the 11th ult., the , photographs obtained during Sir G. Baden. Powell’s expedition to Nova Zembla, were shown and explained at the Royal Astronomical Society. The photographs are said to be of particular interest and of great value. te > Rigg’s Kinematograph.—The motive power in connection with the Kinematograph of Mr. J. H. Rigg, Skinner Lane, Leeds, is an electric motor, which not only ensures evenness of motion, but also frees the operator from inuch work. At 186, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A., Mr. Rigg has lately opened an agency. a ~ ~~ name given to an apparatus brought out by Messrs, Watson & expose films for animated photographs, but will also project them on the screen. Bad < ~ cinematographic Films.—We lately had an | and nurses, together with well-known friends of opportunity of inspecting a large stock of cinematographic films at the premises of Mr. | in a pleasing, chatty style by Miss Orme, the ar Ore Wolff, 9, Southampton Street, Holborn, English, French, and German) there are about two hundred sets enumerated, are kept in stock, others can one day’s notice. Those which we inspected were about 75 feet long, and very clear. In the catalogue which he issues (in | Most of these | be supplied at , Son, which will not only | Death from Acetylene Gas.—About three weeks ago a youth at Olney met with his death, being found dead in the cellar of his father’s house. A month or two ago he constructed a ' generator with which he was fond of experi menting. It is presumed that he opened the generator, which evidently contained some gas, with alight in his hand, for the bell of the ' generator during the explosion hit him in the j face, inflicting a serious wound. > > Small Acetylene Generators. — Many persons make their own generators, and in our opinion some make them too small. We recently spent an evening with a friend who used a small generator of his own construction with which to light his dining-room. During the ead _ evening the gas gradually became exhausted, that is to say, that it eventually generated at a slower rate than it was consumed, so the taps were turned off, and we went into another room. In about half-an-hour, the unmistakable smell of acetylene gas reached us, and on investigation it was found that after turning off _ the taps, the generation of the gas went on slowly, and the capacity of the generator being small, the gas bubbled up through the water as soon’ as the bell was full; however, lights were kept away and the windows opened. A much larger generator will in future be used at that house, for there was something akin to a scare created. bead st = The Temperance Hospital.—Friends who are interested in this excellent institution, and also in magic lantern work, will be pleased to learn that a most interesting Jantern lecture has just been prepared jointly by the Hospital Board ' of Management, and the United Kingdom Band of The Motorgraph.—The Mmotorgraph is the . Hope Union, 60, Old Bailey, E.C., under the title of “A Visit to the Temperance Hospital.” It comprises twenty-four photographic slides illustrating the various interesting features of the hospital and its work, and includes views of the exterior, the children’s ward, surgical ward, women’s ward, the operating theatre, the kitchen and various pleasing pictures of patients the hospital. The descriptive lecture is written lady superintendent. ~~ ~ ~ Transparency Work.— Some time ago a paper was given by Mr. James Patrick, before the Edinburgh Photographic Society, on “ Stray Thoughts on Lantern Slide Making,” during