The Magic Lantern

The Magic Lantern, 2014- 2026

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. 46 (March 2026)

Contents:

  • »  Sandra Lawrence, It's Convention time – for our fiftieth anniversary!
  • »  Magic Lantern Society notice board
  • »  Richard Feltham, From the Chair
  • »  Yoriko Iwata, A performance history: fourth generation of the Beicho Group in Japan
  • »  Helmut Wälde, Early three-colour magic lantern slides: the Dr Miethe three-colour camera
  • »  Edward Murray, Chapter 1 In Love: the making of a magic lantern poem
  • »  Jeremy Brooker, The MLS Awards 2025
  • »  Sandra Lawrence, Call for contributions: Sisters of the Silver Slide: women and the magic lantern
  • »  George Auckland, Best quality images from cameras and smartphones
  • »  Jeremy Brooker, Stilled Shadows
  • »  Karen E. McAulay, A lady teaching a ragged Sunday School class
  • »  Dominique Santens, Till Eulenspiegel
  • »  Mary Ann Auckland, 50th Annual General Meeting of the Magic Lantern Society: London, 24 January 2026
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