The Magic Lantern

The Magic Lantern, 2014- 2025

The Magic Lantern (TML) has been published four times a year since 2014, offering a lively mixture of Society news, current events in the world of the projected image and research-based articles on every aspect of optical history.

Society members receive each issue by post as soon as it is published. The issues are also created as PDF files, which are available here for searching, viewing and downloading. The eight most recent issues are only available to Society members (sign in to the Members’ Area for access), while earlier issues are made available to all.

Latest issue:  No. 44 (September 2025)

Contents:

  • »  Trevor Beattie, James Ashbury: Brighton's political lantern lecturer
  • »  Magic Lantern Society notice board
  • »  Mary Ann Auckland, Wellington meets his Waterloo
  • »  Jeremy Brooker, The fires of London: Part 2. The Jewin Street Fire
  • »  Jeremy Brooker, MLS Awards 2025
  • »  Tony Lidington, Moving panoramas and the modern Phantasmagoria
  • »  Richard Feltham, From the Chair
  • »  Sandra Lawrence, Roses for remembrance
  • »  Miguel Herrero Herrero, The last Fantascope?
  • »  Reviews: Orígenes de la Banda Sonora and El Arte de la Luz y la Sombra by Miguel Herrero Herrero
  • »  Mary Ann Auckland, Obituary: Doug Lear (1948-2025)
  • »  Mary Ann Auckland, Summer meeting of the Magic Lantern Society: Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire, Saturday 19 July 2025
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