Summary

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

Slide number 11 from a set of 12 lantern slides depicting the children's story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. Appears to depict a man hiding a boy in a stone well or oven.

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 wearing red and blue, sitting in a stone well or oven. A man holding a large lid is pictured standing behind. He looks furtively over his shoulder. The scene is set in a stone-walled building.

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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