Drama
Magic lantern slides of the dramatic genre are defined as having five specific properties: (1) recording and level of coding of their images by using recreation of scenic photographs (‘slice of life’); (2) orientation to the professional lanternist market; (3) a social context of public exhibition; (4) high scenic complexity —slides were designed to be shown with the reading of printed texts supplied by the manufacturer—; and (5) the use of contents of the largest dramatic literary tradition in any of their forms: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, farce, didactic works, or realistic pieces.
The celebrated Life Model slide sequences are a good example of dramatic magic lantern slides: a collection of slides that were marketed from 1870 in England by the firm Bamforth & Co., or in the United States by the New York firm Scott & Van Altena. Life Models collections were composed of up to fifty photographs, sometimes hand-colored, showing extras in elaborate sets and staging all kinds of cultural contents; they were staged accompanied with texts to be read aloud, and, occasionally, they even had songs and / or musical accompaniment.
Drama
Magic lantern slides of the dramatic genre are defined as having five specific properties: (1) recording and level of coding of their images by using recreation of scenic photographs (‘slice of life’); (2) orientation to the professional lanternist market; (3) a social context of public exhibition; (4) high scenic complexity —slides were designed to be shown with the reading of printed texts supplied by the manufacturer—; and (5) the use of contents of the largest dramatic literary tradition in any of their forms: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, farce, didactic works, or realistic pieces.
The celebrated Life Model slide sequences are a good example of dramatic magic lantern slides: a collection of slides that were marketed from 1870 in England by the firm Bamforth & Co., or in the United States by the New York firm Scott & Van Altena. Life Models collections were composed of up to fifty photographs, sometimes hand-colored, showing extras in elaborate sets and staging all kinds of cultural contents; they were staged accompanied with texts to be read aloud, and, occasionally, they even had songs and / or musical accompaniment.
Title
Title genre magic lantern slides include visual contents such as signs, inscriptions or decorative elements that served to lead, announce transitions, or finish any of the projected stories during the magic lantern shows. Magic lantern slides within the title genre genre include the chromotoscopic subgenre. Chromotoscopic magic lantern slides are defined as having two specific properties in addition to the sign genre: a cyclical format and the creation of their images by pictorial and / or printing techniques.
Artistic
Magic lantern slides catalogued within the artistic genre refer to the visual dissemination of cultural content of Science and the Fine Arts. The term ‘Fine Arts’ became popular in the eighteenth century to refer to the forms of art that developed mainly through aesthetic philosophy, the idealization of beauty and the good use of technology. The first book known to classify the fine arts is Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe (The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle), published in 1746 by Frenchman Charles Batteux, who tried to unify the numerous theories about beauty and liking. Batteux originally included in the Fine Arts: dancing, sculpturing, music, painting, and poetry, though he added later architecture and eloquence. Over time, the list would change according to different authors that added or removed arts to this list: first, eloquence was substracted, and, in 1911, Ricciotto Canudo was the first theorist to qualify cinema as the seventh art in his essay Manifiesto de las siete artes, which was published in 1914. Also, for the historical evolution of the term, it is common for it to be associated —especially in educational institutions and museums— almost exclusively to the plastic or visual arts.
Artistic
Magic lantern slides catalogued within the artistic genre refer to the visual dissemination of cultural content of Science and the Fine Arts. The term ‘Fine Arts’ became popular in the eighteenth century to refer to the forms of art that developed mainly through aesthetic philosophy, the idealization of beauty and the good use of technology. The first book known to classify the fine arts is Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe (The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle), published in 1746 by Frenchman Charles Batteux, who tried to unify the numerous theories about beauty and liking. Batteux originally included in the Fine Arts: dancing, sculpturing, music, painting, and poetry, though he added later architecture and eloquence. Over time, the list would change according to different authors that added or removed arts to this list: first, eloquence was substracted, and, in 1911, Ricciotto Canudo was the first theorist to qualify cinema as the seventh art in his essay Manifiesto de las siete artes, which was published in 1914. Also, for the historical evolution of the term, it is common for it to be associated —especially in educational institutions and museums— almost exclusively to the plastic or visual arts.
Artistic
Magic lantern slides catalogued within the artistic genre refer to the visual dissemination of cultural content of Science and the Fine Arts. The term ‘Fine Arts’ became popular in the eighteenth century to refer to the forms of art that developed mainly through aesthetic philosophy, the idealization of beauty and the good use of technology. The first book known to classify the fine arts is Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe (The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle), published in 1746 by Frenchman Charles Batteux, who tried to unify the numerous theories about beauty and liking. Batteux originally included in the Fine Arts: dancing, sculpturing, music, painting, and poetry, though he added later architecture and eloquence. Over time, the list would change according to different authors that added or removed arts to this list: first, eloquence was substracted, and, in 1911, Ricciotto Canudo was the first theorist to qualify cinema as the seventh art in his essay Manifiesto de las siete artes, which was published in 1914. Also, for the historical evolution of the term, it is common for it to be associated —especially in educational institutions and museums— almost exclusively to the plastic or visual arts.
Title
Title genre magic lantern slides include visual contents such as signs, inscriptions or decorative elements that served to lead, announce transitions, or finish any of the projected stories during the magic lantern shows. Magic lantern slides within the title genre genre include the chromotoscopic subgenre. Chromotoscopic magic lantern slides are defined as having two specific properties in addition to the sign genre: a cyclical format and the creation of their images by pictorial and / or printing techniques.
Drama
Magic lantern slides of the dramatic genre are defined as having five specific properties: (1) recording and level of coding of their images by using recreation of scenic photographs (‘slice of life’); (2) orientation to the professional lanternist market; (3) a social context of public exhibition; (4) high scenic complexity —slides were designed to be shown with the reading of printed texts supplied by the manufacturer—; and (5) the use of contents of the largest dramatic literary tradition in any of their forms: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, farce, didactic works, or realistic pieces.
The celebrated Life Model slide sequences are a good example of dramatic magic lantern slides: a collection of slides that were marketed from 1870 in England by the firm Bamforth & Co., or in the United States by the New York firm Scott & Van Altena. Life Models collections were composed of up to fifty photographs, sometimes hand-colored, showing extras in elaborate sets and staging all kinds of cultural contents; they were staged accompanied with texts to be read aloud, and, occasionally, they even had songs and / or musical accompaniment.