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The places of entertainment which he visited, within a few miles of Stourbridge, were small buildings, and the audience being composed of children the illustrated lectures were a great success, so much so that the subject of our sketch was, in a weak moment, persuaded to repeat one of his illustrated lectures at a large chapel.
This large affair, he tells us, was his first and last failure, for, wishing to exhibit pictures of a size in keeping with the dimensions of the
Delian
chapel, he hired many special slides and also a 16-feet screen. The disc certainly filled the screen, and that is all that could be said about it. His illuminant was simply a 3-wick oil lamp, and it could not do impossibilities, so his great expectations were dashed to the ground.
However, this failure made him determined to succeed, and with this aim he purchased a bi-unial with limelight fittings in 1886, and exhibited with such marked success, that from
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The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger,
then till now he has never lacked business engagements,
Some years ago he parted with his first love of a bi-unial for a still higher class outfit, and
this he improved to such an extent that he . prides himself on being possessed of one of the ' finest outfits to be found in the Midlands.
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Exhibitions have been given by Mr. Saunders in nearly every town of importance in this country, and for two seasons he acted as assistant to Mr. Garbutt, of Leeds, travelling with the Gilchrist lecturers. In connection with these trips he hasa vast fund of humorous incidents which we hope he will publish and illustrate, as they would make a particularly interesting lantern lecture under the heading of ‘‘ Tncidents in a roving lanternist’s life.”
Of late years increasing business has kept him in and about Birmingham, his studios being located at Heath Street. He has done most of the lantern work in connection with Mason University College lectures, and this season the Birmingham Temperance Society agreed to hold lantern services every Sunday evening at the Circus,and Mr. Saunders entered into an engagement for their lantern work. These services have been a tremendous success, for although the building holds 2,000, it is not only filled every night, but hundreds have to be turned away for want of room. No charge is made, but a collection is taken to defray expenses.
Lantern manipulation and lecturing has now become only one of the departments of Mr. Saunders’s business, for he has a large output in the form of slides from amateur negatives. Collodion, he considers, gives the best results, so he strictly adheres to that process. A feature
| is also made of copying diagrams for special | lectures, and in this department between three
and four thousand negatives are on hand. In slide colouring Mr. Saunders is an adept,
) and in this he is most painstaking, consequently | commands high prices.
Several societies, including the Vegetarian Society, know Mr. Saunders as a most active
; member.
The photograph which appears on this page is a recent one and an admirable likeness.
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