Magic Lantern - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: magic lanternCinematograph
an older name for a movie projector a machine combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features for projecting on a screen a series of pictures moved rapidly 25 to 50 frames per second and intermittently before an objective lens and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion a moving picture projector also any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph biograph bioscope electrograph electroscope kinematograph kinetoscope veriscope vitagraph vitascope zooumlgyroscope zooumlpraxiscope etc...
magic lantern
An early form of slide projector...
Megascope
A modification of the magic lantern projector used esp for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen solar or artificial light being used...
Phantasmagoria
An optical effect produced by a magic lantern The figures are painted in transparent colors and all the rest of the glass is opaque black The screen is between the spectators and the instrument and the figures are often made to appear as in motion or to merge into one another...
Sciopticon
A kind of magic lantern...
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