The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (February 1901)

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iv GENERAL ADVERTISEMENTS. A PROFESSIONAL lanternist and cinematographist of great experience.is open to engagements, with or without his own apparatus, in town or country, on very moderate terms. Reference, Editor of this Journal. —Address, Optics, 13, York-street, Walworth, London. Wee complete sets of lantern slides, secondhand, in good condition for hiring out trade.— Address, Optical, c/o OpricaL LantERN JOURNAL. (OR sale, a complete set of bound volumes of THE Macic LanterN Journat, volumes 1 to 10.— Apply at the Office of the Journal, 9, Curthusian-street, BG Cea a emulsion lantern slides, made from original negatives, photographs, engravings, book illustrations, etc.; for beauty on the screen, no process can touch co!lodion emulsion. — Dunning, Tynedale, Raigate. Me Cadbury Brothers, Limited, of Bouraviille, near Birmingham, will forward to any lanternist, free of cost, some attractively coloured lantern slides, copied from their striking show cards, to any operator who will undertake to exhibit same at lantern entertainments in his district. p° you want any colouring, negatives made, slides or effects made? Give us your ideas, and we will work them out; rackworks, chromos, levers, slips, moonrise and ripple eficcts, day to night + flects, a speciality ; advertisement slides, mechanical and otherwise, made; negatives made from 5s., slides made from 43., colouring . from 33. per doz.—Brett & Green, 23, Bickerton-road, London, N. “TIGH-CLASS lantern slide artist ; colouring in three stylés; satisfaction guaranteed ; send for samples. —20, The Broadway, Gleneagle-road, Streatham, S.W. ANTEKNIST and lecturer is open to accept engagement for entertainments; moderate fee.— Mr. Williams, 151, Great Titchfield-street, London. ‘YRIDIRUN saturator, 33s. Mahogavy bi-uaial, brass fronts, roller and revealing curtain, 6 inch lenses, dissolver, mixed jets, case with drawer, good condition ; bargain, £7 10s. Lawson's old pattern bi-unial gaturator; complete list price, £4 10s.; take 30s.— W. Care, 25, Chapel-street, West Bromwich. I-UNIAL lantern, blow-through and mixed jets, dissolvcr, carriers, curtain effect; not used 12 times; cost £17; price £9 ; owner has two.—F. T. Carter, Cyrano, Weybridge. _ O7 LANTERN slides, various British and foreign boxes ; price 503.—F. T. Carter, Cyrano, Weybridge. YOR sale, lecturer’s outfit.—Bi-unial lantern (nearly new), acetylene generator, two burner jets, dissolver, and 12 feet screen; ready for usc; bargain, £12.—Edward Evans, Pontrbydyfen, Glamorgan. | ANTIERN slides.—Several bhunared, in complete gets, for sale, cheap; printed list free on applica tion.—Boutwood, Kenmore, Hastings. P-TO-DATE lantern and slide hiring business for immediate disposal in the Midland Counties ; splendid opening; no competition ; fullest particulars.— Apply in first place to King, 9, Carthustan-street, Alderegate-street, London, EC. IFE of Christ.—Scripture figure studies (New.on & | Co.), cheap for cash, 22 Easter subjects ; also six | agenes in Life of Queen Victoria, coloured, 2s. 3d. each ; highest class.—Write, Gowen, 16, Hale End-road, Walthamstow. views; all professional made, in divisioned | The Optica) Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. : grand show ; land, North London. YR. W..C. HUGHES, the great specialist in optical L projection; over 30 years’ experience, and over 20 patents for improvements connected with lantern work; the inventor of the most perfect optical lantern effects extant, which have been supplied to the most eminent amatcur and professional exhibitors. Professor Malden, Canon Scott, Dr. H. Grattan-Guinness, Madame Patti, Colin Docwra, E:q., Capt. Charles Reade, R.N., Chevalier, Stuart Cumberland. Hundreds of the Clergy all over the world; also the late Polytechnic, etc., etc. R. HUGHES' Docwra Malden and Grand Triples and Bi-unials are superb instruments, and the efiacts unequalled. The marvellous Pamphengos still holds its own against the commercial productions. Gives beautiful 12 feet pictures. The £6 6s. reduced to £4 4s.; the £4 4s. to £3103. If you want a really high-class technical instrument, consult Mr. Hughes ; if you want a good cheap lantern or cinematograph, see Mr. Hughes’ of instruments, etc., at the show rooms and Brewster House, 82, Mortimer-road, KingsA sight to be seen. art gallery, M® HUGHES has produced the grandest me| chanical effscts ever shown upon a screen. Over 600 to b3 actually seen ia stock, at all prices; the best value in quality and result. Among the most recent are OER war effects. Sorties from Ladysmith; Buller crossing the Tugela; Ladysmith sigualling by searchlight; Naval gun at Ladysmith ; Mafeking, Baden Powell, Battle of Dundee, etc., etc., etc. Gr effects.—Great fire in Jewin-strees, Earthquake at Arica, Life-boat rescue, Fairy glen and lake, The ship on fire, special; and over 400 others. Executed by the only artists who painted a number of the mechanical cfiscts shown at the Royal Polytechnic years ago. Mr. Hughes has hundreds ot pounds of this class of work, which may never be obtained again ; and best of all, they are on view. Hundreds of ter timonials. Grandly illustrated catalogues, 180 choice engravings, Gd., postage 4d., of Lanterns and effects. 60,000 slide list, Gd.; smaller illustrated catalogues, 100 engravings, 4d. ARIS EXHIBITION; Over Amm:rgau, over 50 subjects, fine set; China.—A fine series from direct negatives. China and tha war, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. each, arti-tically coloured. Hughes eer WAR.—Over 200 subjects; coloured, 1s. 6d. ; artistically coloured, 3s. 6d. ; litho series of same, ' Qs. 6d. per box of 12; five lectures in all. Hughes. O EXHIBITORS.—Hughes’ telescopic brass fronted bi-unial, three sets of lenses, £13 133.; the Universal 4-wick lantern, 18s. 6d. Have no hesitation. If you want value, and want to see a fine collection, visit Brewster House. All kinds of effects made and invented by W. C. Hughes. NDERTON’S Analycon stereoscopic lantern with 450 analysers; a bargain ; as shown before H.R.H. the Prince of Wales—Apply, W. C. Hughes, Kiogsland. -ROMSCOPE photo chromoscope in Ives's process |} for colour photography, all complete with lantern and best set slides, only £9 158.—Apply, W. C. Hughes, | Kingsland, N. INEMATOGRAPHS (single and bi-unial) and Films, second-hand, from £6 10s. First-class machines allowed for when purchasing others; films from 10s. 6d. each: first-class quality, not rubbish, choicely selected. List, post free, 2d.—W. C. Hughes, Brewster House, 82, Mortimer-road, Kingsland, London, N. Please Mention this Journal when corresponding with A@vertisers.