Summary
Newspaper image entitled 'Modern Ghost Raising: A Sketch Behind the Scenes at the Polytechnic'. This image appeared in the Illustrated London News on 16 January 1875.
The image shows an Elizabethan ghost apparently floating in air. The apparatus used to create this Pepper's Ghost effect is shown plus the people involved in creating the illusion.
This newspaper image is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Australian and Victorian Governments in 1975. David Francis was the curator of the National Film and Sound Archive of the British Film Institute as well as being a co-founder of the Museum of the Moving Image in London, which was operational between 1988 and 1999.
Physical Description
Newspaper page
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Loan & Subsequent Donation from Australian Film Institute (AFI), Mr David Francis, by Nov 1990
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Collector
Mr David Francis, London, Middlesex, England, Great Britain, 1990
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Date Published
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Inscriptions
'Modern Ghost Raising: A Sketch Behind the Scenes at the Polytechnic'.
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Overall Dimensions
264 mm (Width), 376 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Entertainment, Magic Lanterns, Optical Illusions, Phantasmagoria, Ghosts (Spirits)
