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Magic Lantern Theatres is a chain of 11 movie theatres in Canada. Three of these locations are Rainbow Cinemas discount theatres. Magic Lantern Theatres was founded in 1984 in Edmonton, Alberta, while Rainbow Cinemas was founded in the early 1990s in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The two chains merged and are now based in Edmonton.
These include Pierre Albanese and glass harmonica player Thomas Bloch live Magic Lantern/Phantasmagoria shows since 2008 in Europe [95] and The American Magic-Lantern Theater. [96] The Magic Lantern Society maintains a list of active lanternists, which contains more than 20 performers in the U.K. and around eight performers in other parts of ...
George Albert Smith (4 January 1864 – 17 May 1959) was an English stage hypnotist, psychic, magic lantern lecturer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, inventor and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul.
Ben Russell in 2014. Ben Russell (born 1976) is an American artist and experimental filmmaker.Russell developed his reputation over the numerous shorts he made throughout the 2000s, [1] many as part of his "Trypps" series, [2] [3] and as the curator of the Magic Lantern Cinema in Providence, Rhode Island. [4]
In 2021, Lipton published The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Era. [14] In the 800-page illustrated book, Lipton argues that film scholars mistakenly consider inventions that preceded the 19th century motion picture cameras from Thomas Edison and the Lumières brothers as prehistory.
In 2010, it was re-opened under new management, Rainbow and Magic Lantern Theatres, [2] [4] who ran the cinema until 2016, when it was acquired by Imagine Cinemas. [5] [6] It was subsequently reopened in 2017. [1] The cinema is well known in Toronto for playing foreign, arthouse, and independent films that are often ignored by larger chain ...
He demonstrated his own magic lantern at the Sanspareil Theatre which was replaced by 1806, by the Adelphi Theatre. [7] The magic lantern had not advanced much from the 17th century to the latter part of the 18th century. Childe used achromatic lenses and an improved oil-lamp; and moved to the limelight, then associated with Thomas Drummond. [8]
The theatre was purchased and restored by Rainbow and Magic Lantern Cinemas, and reopened under its original name in 2005. [4] It currently shows first-run art and alternative movies, and is a venue for concerts, lectures, and a variety of community events.