Panorama magic lantern slide

Manufacturer	Ernst Plank
Name	Lanternenbild
Title	[Men riding animals]
Place	Nuremberg (Germany)
Date	after 1865
Register	02751

Glass slidess for magic lanterns for domestic use. From 1820, the Englishman Phillip Carpenter invented a new procedure for the serial production of glass slidess for magic lanterns, which until then had to be drawn and painted entirely by hand. It consisted of printing on the glass slide the black outline of the edges of the drawn figures and then colouring them manually. This system made it possible to increase the production of glass slidess, which, added to the industrialisation of the manufacture of magic lanterns, enabling them to be offered at a more affordable price to a much larger number of customers and for domestic use. From 1865, a new system appeared: chromolithography, which allowed the entire image to be printed in colour on the glass slide. With this new technique, production increased markedly and manufacturing costs decreased, so magic lanterns for family use became even more popular. The quality of the image projected on the screen of this type of slide was lower than that of the fully hand-painted ones.

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