10th International Convention
Held in Birmingham, at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Friday 28th to Sunday 30th April 2017.
The Convention took place over three days attracting members old and new. As well as the usual packed programme of lectures and shows, exhibition, collectors' market, Gala dinner, and auction, it also featured for the first time a ticketed event open to the public.
The Twitter hashtag, #MLSconvention was used for the first time at this convention.
A report of the 10th convention was published in The Magic Lantern No. 11.
Programme (open/close)
Friday 28 April 2017
9.30am-1.30pm
Registration
Cabinet of Curiosities / Market / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows
1.30pm-2pm
Chairman's Welcome
2pm-2.45pm
Picture the Songs: Rum-ti-tum and Fiddle-dee-dum: notes from American Illustrated Songdom
Margaret Bergh
3pm-3.30pm
The Raree Man and his Peepshow: "Lucky Dicky Crangle & the Cinnabar Moth"
Tony Lidington
3.30pm-4.30pm
Tea break
Exhibition / Cabinet of Curiosities / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows
4.30pm-5pm
Seditious Images
Jacques Prenez
5pm-5.30pm
The life and inventions of Christiaan Huygens: a secret history of lantern slides
Sarah Dellmann & Gwen Sebus
5.30pm-8pm
Dinner break
Exhibition / Cabinet of Curiosities / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows
8pm-9.30pm
Crescent Theatre Show (public ticketed event)
The Magic Lantern Society presented Magic and the Muse, a unique combination of contemporary music, performance and projection, introduced by Mervyn Heard. Musicians Richard Navarro and Nicholas Thurston created magic with actress Miriam Gould, lanternists Jeremy & Carolyn Brooker. The show featured 'living pose' slides previously used by the parents of actor Peter Sellers in the 1930s, along with other stunning images hand painted onto glass, filling the Crescent Theatre with colour, light and sound.
Saturday 29 April 2017
10am-10.15am
Chairman's Introduction
10.15am-10.45am
When Grim Senji Grinned lantern filmstrip (1956): a story of solidarity in a Japanese colliery
Yoriko Iwata & Hana Washitani
10.45am-11.15am
Farewell to Old England Forever: slides from "Rev. Percy Edwards' Visual Archive"
Margaret & Ian Edwards
11.15am-11.45am
Tea break
11.45am-12.15am
Reverend Smithurst's Wish List
Mary Borgo
12.15pm-1pm
Bringing light to Stanley's "In Darkest Africa"
Dick Moore
1pm-3pm
Lunch break
Exhibition / Cabinet of Curiosities / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows
3pm-3.15pm
Introduction
3.15pm-3.45pm
The Life, Loves and Lies of an Australian Lanternist: the scandalous activities of Albert James Abbott
John Hyett
3.45pm-4.30pm
Friedrich August Boettcher: the greatest lantern exhibitor in Europe
Bernd Scholze
4.30pm-5pm
Cabinet of Curiosities / Market / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows
6pm-7.30pm
Buffet Dinner - Council Chamber
7.30pm-8.30pm
Magic Lantern Cabaret
Not one but three very distinct shows to entertain us! Sergi Buka, Dick Balzer and Martin Gilbert.
Sunday 30 April 2017
10am-12pm
Grand Auction
John Townsend (Auctioneer)
12pm-2pm
Lunch break
Sideshows
2pm-2.30pm
Chairman's Closing Announcements
2.30pm-3pm
Making "The Magic Lantern" opera
Omar Shahryar and Judi Sissons, piano and singers
3m-3.45pm
Le Sablais and his slides for Maison de la Bonne Presse
Annet Duller, piano and singers
3.45pm-4.45pm
Tea break
4.45pm-5.30pm
Feel the Magic: wondrous surprises for young and old
Keith Utteridge and company, piano and singers