Summary

Note: This object includes derogatory depictions of a particular cultural group. Such depictions are not condoned by Museums Victoria which considers them to be racist. Historical distance and context do not excuse or erase this fact.

Alternative Name(s): Children's Slide; Panorama Magic Lantern Slide.

This lantern slide 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.

Description of Content

Panorama children's slide showing islanders cooking, drinking and dancing.

Physical Description

Panorama format colour slide with four circular images printed on a black opaque background, with pink strips of paper around the edges.

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