Summary

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

Slide number 3 from a set of 12 lantern slides depicting the story of Don Quixote. Depicts a kneeling Don Quixote being anointed by another man in front of witnesses in a village setting - possibly a village square.

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 man in armour kneeling down in front of another man who holds a sword above him as if anointing him. Two women are pictured in the background, one holding a sword (possibly the armoured man's sword). A well and low-scale buildings suggest a village.

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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