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WITH WHICH IS
INCORPORATED THE ‘‘LANTERN
WORLD.”
Vol. 12.—No. 147.
DECEMBER, 1901.
Price 2d., Post-free 3d.
CONTENTS. PAGE NOUGS: cea 6s Ss? ee Be. eee: BG ee he 97 A Scicntific Lantern of Fifty Years Ago Ce ee eae Vagarics and Variations of Popular Taste in Lantern Exhibitions—No. 1... 6. ee 99 Shadowgrain or Silhouette Slides.—No. XXVIII. w« 101 Carthusian Btreet to Kimberley Snapshotting .. -103 On Lantern Lectures 2... ee 105 Wet Collodion Lantern Slide Making —No. Tf... 2.0... 107 Some Principles of Cinematoyzraphic Machines.—No IL. 108 The Busker’s Story «2 .. 6. ek ek eee eee 08 New Apparatus .. ~llt
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Notes and Queries
NOTICES.
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SMALL ADVERTISEMENTS must reach the office not later than the first post on the 24th of the month. All cheques and postal orders to be made payable to the Magic Lantern Journal Company, Limited.
EDITORIAL communications must be addressed, THE EDITOR, Advertisements and business communications to THE MAGIC LANTERN JOURNAL COMPANY, Ltd., 9a, Carthusian Street, London, E.C.
American Agents:—The International News Co., 83 and 86, Duane Street, New York City.
A Photographic Prize.--A sutficient amount in Consols to produce £5 a year, has been specially invested by Mr. A. L. Henderson, which at the discretion of the London and Provincial Photographic Society will be awarded for the best photographic paper read during each year, preference being given to the chemical department of photography.
aad Bead
Local History.—The London School Board
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‘is arranging a scheme for teaching the local . history of the various London boroughs to
boys and girls in the senior classes. To this end lantern lectures are to be given in the local town halls. These lectures are to present in a clear and simple manner the local history of each district, showing how the parish grew into a vestry and the vestry into a borough. We understand that Mr. Ratcliffe, formerly editor of the Echo, has been entrusted with the execution of this scheme.
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An Enthusiastic Schoolmaster. — Mr. Clark, the head master of the Bath Road Board Schools, has prepared about 2,000 lantern
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