Summary

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

George Carette was a French manufacturer of tin toys and magic lanterns. After his marriage with a German woman he went to Nuremberg in 1886 where he founded his toy company. Carette was among the first to produce electric toy tram-cars, along with locomotives, steam engines and other tin toys. The trade mark initially showed a winged figure with the words 'Jouets fins - Fine Toys - Feine Spielwaren'. After 1895 the initials GCCoN were used. At the outbreak of World War I Carette left Nuremberg for France, where he died in the 1920s.

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

Five landmarks from around the world including the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

Physical Description

Panorama format rectangular glass lantern slide featuring colour images printed on glass, bound with green paper tape.

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