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[29] 100 lantern slides depicting Christian missionary activity around the world, all of which have been digitised [30] and are available to view online. [31] University of Sheffield: The University Library, Special Collections Department Sheffield Beet Lantern Slide Collection. [32] Around 2,500 lantern slides on a wide range of subjects.
Starting in the 1950s, manufacturers introduced slide projectors with mechanisms which handle slides preloaded into cartridges, moving individual slides into and out of the light path in sequence. One of the primary differentiators between slide projectors was the form factor of the cartridges used to hold and, in many cases, store slides.
Bamforth & Co Ltd was started in 1870 by James Bamforth, a portrait photographer in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.In 1883 he began to specialise in making lantern slides. [1] In 1898 the company started making silent monochrome films with the Riley Brothers of Bradford, West Yorkshire, who had been making films since 1896.
The magic lantern and lantern slides are still popular with collectors and can be found in many museums like, for example, in the Museum of Precinema in Padua where 60 magic lanterns and more than 10000 original slides are preserved.
The 1950s was a period of transition from black and white lantern slides, which heretofore had often been hand colored, to color positive film. Lantern slides were shot directly onto color film, and the 35mm slide (2"x2" with an image of 24mm x 36mm) gained in popularity. The heyday of the lantern slide lasted one hundred years, more or less ...
In 1905 Keystone View Company began its Educational Department, selling views and glass lantern slides (the 4 x 3.25 inch ancestors of the better-known 2 x 2 inch slides containing transparencies on film, which eventually replaced them) to schools throughout the country. They also produced lantern slide projection equipment.
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