Item MM 31889 Lantern Slide - 'Bluebeard', Woman Opening a Door to Discover Corpses, 1850-1900

Summary

One of a series of late 19th century lantern slides, depicting the story of Bluebeard.

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

Hand coloured illustration. Woman is standing at an open door, looking aghast at four women hanging from a line by their hair, with a skeleton under their feet.

Physical Description

Single lantern slide, comprising circular hand-coloured print on glass, with black mask, mounted in rectangular wooden frame.