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  • Vanessa Redgrave and James Fox. Through the pictures of a travelling lanternist, it depicts the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, who were arrested and...
    9 KB (798 words) - 05:02, 20 December 2023
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    of engaging books for boys in his classes he wrote and published The Lanternist, an Edwardian adventure story with illustrations by Timothy Ide, in 2021...
    8 KB (870 words) - 00:05, 23 May 2024
  • Comfort and Joy (1984) .... Trevor Comrades (1986) .... Diorama Showman / Lanternist / Laughing Cavalier / Sgt. Bell / Mr Wetham (scene cut) / Usher / Wollaston...
    10 KB (1,062 words) - 05:51, 23 February 2024
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    Robert Stephens and Vanessa Redgrave. Through the pictures of a travelling lanternist, it depicts the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. A workshop production...
    24 KB (2,541 words) - 21:03, 18 March 2024
  • The story itself is mediated by the character of an itinerant magic lanternist who reappears in a number of roles. Comrades was to be Bill Douglas's...
    12 KB (1,461 words) - 17:05, 6 September 2023
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    that were popularized by Henry Langdon Childe since the late 1830s, lanternists needed to be able to project two aligned pictures in the same spot on...
    4 KB (401 words) - 21:54, 19 January 2024
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    important part of its program. At the main theatre, with 500 seats, lanternists would make good use of a battery of six large lanterns running on tracked...
    91 KB (10,557 words) - 09:47, 16 June 2024
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    were usually operated by a showman or presenter, in the same way as a lanternist. The light source for most projectors in the early period was limelight...
    20 KB (2,701 words) - 06:34, 19 August 2023
  • Notes 1936 Things to Come Airman Uncredited 1938 Sixty Glorious Years Lanternist Professor First credited film role 1940 Convoy HMS Apollo Pilot Uncredited...
    25 KB (2,949 words) - 22:20, 24 March 2024
  • (which was usually an almost invisible transparent screen behind which the lanternist operated hidden in the dark). A ghost could seem to approach the audience...
    33 KB (4,013 words) - 16:47, 26 May 2024
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    Jones, is an Anglo-Welsh poet, critic, teacher, playwright, and magic lanternist. Annwn was born David James Jones in Congleton, and brought up in Cheshire...
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    conjurers and storytellers added them to their repertoire. The travelling lanternists were often called Savoyards (they supposedly came from the Savoy region...
    69 KB (8,110 words) - 07:17, 13 June 2024
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    group of six actors dressed in period costume (e.g. a Victorian magic lanternist and a Hollywood director). A few months before MOMI opened in 1988, the...
    10 KB (1,090 words) - 14:49, 10 September 2023
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    (which was usually an almost invisible transparent screen behind which the lanternist operated hidden in the dark). A ghost could seem to approach the audience...
    56 KB (7,451 words) - 07:54, 5 June 2024
  • Lord Salisbury Aubrey Dexter as the Prince of Wales Robert Eddison as Lanternist Professor Stuart Robertson as George Edward Anson Olaf Olsen as the Crown...
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    law, medicine, history, and poetry. Fieubet protected the Academy of Lanternists and the Institute of Girls' Education. He initiated the Salle des Illustres...
    26 KB (3,073 words) - 05:23, 9 May 2024
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    Stedhûs Sleat Sloten / Sleat Local Museum that has the collection of lanternist Peter Bonnet on permanent display Speelgoedmuseum Deventer Deventer Local...
    25 KB (952 words) - 16:02, 7 December 2023
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    directory entry makes no mention of postcards: “landscape photographer, lanternist and photographic materials dealer”. Apart from lantern shows, these activities...
    12 KB (1,802 words) - 21:30, 13 April 2024
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    unclear whether he did incorporate the effect in his shows before other lanternists developed their own versions. Surviving playbills of his shows seem to...
    6 KB (736 words) - 22:04, 8 January 2021
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    From 1891 to 1892, Bedborough was a member of the National Society of Lanternists. He also occasionally worked as a lantern operator and gave lectures...
    17 KB (1,667 words) - 13:28, 19 June 2024
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