Geographical
Magic lantern slides of a geographical genre graphically depict the Earth, scientifically studying its surface, the societies that inhabit it, and the territories, landscapes, places or regions that compose it, relating them to one another. Therefore, these slides represent phenomena from the traces of evolution in nature, such as mountain orogeny, to human dynamics of demographic or socio-economic natures.
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.
Sequential art
Magic lantern slides assigned to the sequential art genre contain short series of drawings that make up a story –with or without text— inspired either by oral tradition, (without a recognized author and with multiple versions that match in structure but differ in details), or by the adaptation of brief narratives from the literary tradition, or by the printed graphic tradition of comic strips and cartoons (which had known authors and usually existed in a single version).
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.