Summary

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

Slide number 12 from a set of 12 lantern slides depicting the story of Don Quixote. Depicts Don Quixote on his bed, with a weeping woman and female attendant by his side. After returning from his adventures, he takes to his bed with a deathly illness, perhaps associated with his depression over his defeats and humiliations. One day he wakes with his sanity restored and his fantasy about knights vanished. He dies at the end of the story.

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 bed with armour on the floor by his side, a shield and swords on the wall and books on a shelf behind him. Two women are pictured on the far side of the bed, one with a cloth to her eyes as if crying.

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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