MOUNT HOLLY – Take a step back in time and marvel at the beauty and atmosphere of 19th century entertainment during Burlington County’s Art of the Magic Lantern performance festival and exhibit.

LONG before the birth of the motion picture, audiences worldwide were entertained by magic lantern shows that brought popular stories, temperance tales and ghosts and ghouls to vivid life. Magic ...

Eric Hennig’s handmade “magic lanterns” are eye-catching at any time of year, but they seem particularly appropriate during these intimate, gray-sky infused autumn days leading up to Halloween. The ...

The hum of a 104-year-old projector and the voice of historian Mike Zahs were the only sounds that could be heard as the audience looked at images that were more than a century old in a dark room in ...

The Witte Museum's current exhibitions include “The World Through Magic Lanterns,” an exhibit of pieces from the Jack Judson Magic Lantern Castle Collections. The lanterns were used from the 1700s ...

Victorian families were able to enjoy their own version of Netflix by utilising an early form of “pay-per-view” entertainment to while away winter evenings, new research has found. Nineteenth-century ...

Q: We are wondering about this box of about 50 glass slides with pictures from all over the United States. Everything from Niagara Falls to old railroad cars. They were distributed by the Keystone ...

One thing you probably won’t ever find at a shopping mall toy store is a child-sized digital projector. A toy cell phone - perhaps - but no child wants to rush home from daycare to play “PowerPoint.” ...

Titles pages for the first 1843 edition of A Christmas Carol, with engravings by John Leech. Source: University of Iowa Libraries How did a gothic tale about ghosts become a Christmas classic? While ...

About Magic Lantern Theatres. Founded in 1984 in Edmonton, Alberta, Magic Lantern Theatres currently own 10 cinemas in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario. They or ...