Summary

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

Slide number 1 from a set of12 lantern slides depicting the children's story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. It shows a boy talking to a woman - perhaps his mother.

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

Lantern slide showing a boy with a woman in a domestic setting. A door is ajar behind him; he carries a bundle, as if having just entered. She looks down at him, raising her right hand, with her left hand on a table. The table stands under a window with diamond pane leadlight glass.

Physical Description

Lantern slide featuring a colour image printed on glass with black paper edging. A second piece of glass is attached to protect the printed image.

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