Item MM 31895 Lantern Slide - Terrified Woman Lying on a Chair While Confronted by a Ghost, circa 1880-1900

Summary

One of a series of late 19th century narrative lantern slides.

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

Seated woman recoiling from a ghostly apparition.

Physical Description

Single lantern slide, comprising circular hand-coloured photographic print on glass disc, mounted in rectangular wooden frame.