Theme

Phantasmagoria

Description

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slides evoke the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century: ruins covered bathed in moonlighting, flying bats over crossing cemeteries, or cloisters where novices search for a missing lover. The thematic universe of these slides sessions includes of dark woods and landscapes, medieval ruins and castles with their own basements, crypts and passageways filled with ghosts, night noises, chains, skeletons, demons, even hybrid and monstrous creatures that mingled with mythology, such as the head of Medusa or the winged gryphon. The human being, except when referrering to great personalities famous people, is usually represented by men who are monks or hermits; and women are generally virgins, novices, nuns, witches or fortune tellers. These motifs remained popular for many years in the taste of the audience, which as was evidenced by the systematic inclusion of phantasmagorias in the magic lantern soirées throughout the nineteenth century.

Theme

Phantasmagoria

Description

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slides evoke the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century: ruins covered bathed in moonlighting, flying bats over crossing cemeteries, or cloisters where novices search for a missing lover. The thematic universe of these slides sessions includes of dark woods and landscapes, medieval ruins and castles with their own basements, crypts and passageways filled with ghosts, night noises, chains, skeletons, demons, even hybrid and monstrous creatures that mingled with mythology, such as the head of Medusa or the winged gryphon. The human being, except when referrering to great personalities famous people, is usually represented by men who are monks or hermits; and women are generally virgins, novices, nuns, witches or fortune tellers. These motifs remained popular for many years in the taste of the audience, which as was evidenced by the systematic inclusion of phantasmagorias in the magic lantern soirées throughout the nineteenth century.

Theme

Phantasmagoria

Description

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slides evoke the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century: ruins covered bathed in moonlighting, flying bats over crossing cemeteries, or cloisters where novices search for a missing lover. The thematic universe of these slides sessions includes of dark woods and landscapes, medieval ruins and castles with their own basements, crypts and passageways filled with ghosts, night noises, chains, skeletons, demons, even hybrid and monstrous creatures that mingled with mythology, such as the head of Medusa or the winged gryphon. The human being, except when referrering to great personalities famous people, is usually represented by men who are monks or hermits; and women are generally virgins, novices, nuns, witches or fortune tellers. These motifs remained popular for many years in the taste of the audience, which as was evidenced by the systematic inclusion of phantasmagorias in the magic lantern soirées throughout the nineteenth century.

Theme

Phantasmagoria

Description

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slides evoke the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century: ruins covered bathed in moonlighting, flying bats over crossing cemeteries, or cloisters where novices search for a missing lover. The thematic universe of these slides sessions includes of dark woods and landscapes, medieval ruins and castles with their own basements, crypts and passageways filled with ghosts, night noises, chains, skeletons, demons, even hybrid and monstrous creatures that mingled with mythology, such as the head of Medusa or the winged gryphon. The human being, except when referrering to great personalities famous people, is usually represented by men who are monks or hermits; and women are generally virgins, novices, nuns, witches or fortune tellers. These motifs remained popular for many years in the taste of the audience, which as was evidenced by the systematic inclusion of phantasmagorias in the magic lantern soirées throughout the nineteenth century.

Theme

Phantasmagoria

Description

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slides evoke the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century: ruins covered bathed in moonlighting, flying bats over crossing cemeteries, or cloisters where novices search for a missing lover. The thematic universe of these slides sessions includes of dark woods and landscapes, medieval ruins and castles with their own basements, crypts and passageways filled with ghosts, night noises, chains, skeletons, demons, even hybrid and monstrous creatures that mingled with mythology, such as the head of Medusa or the winged gryphon. The human being, except when referrering to great personalities famous people, is usually represented by men who are monks or hermits; and women are generally virgins, novices, nuns, witches or fortune tellers. These motifs remained popular for many years in the taste of the audience, which as was evidenced by the systematic inclusion of phantasmagorias in the magic lantern soirées throughout the nineteenth century.

Theme

Phantasmagoria

Description

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slides evoke the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century: ruins covered bathed in moonlighting, flying bats over crossing cemeteries, or cloisters where novices search for a missing lover. The thematic universe of these slides sessions includes of dark woods and landscapes, medieval ruins and castles with their own basements, crypts and passageways filled with ghosts, night noises, chains, skeletons, demons, even hybrid and monstrous creatures that mingled with mythology, such as the head of Medusa or the winged gryphon. The human being, except when referrering to great personalities famous people, is usually represented by men who are monks or hermits; and women are generally virgins, novices, nuns, witches or fortune tellers. These motifs remained popular for many years in the taste of the audience, which as was evidenced by the systematic inclusion of phantasmagorias in the magic lantern soirées throughout the nineteenth century.

Theme

Phantasmagoria

Description

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slides evoke the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century: ruins covered bathed in moonlighting, flying bats over crossing cemeteries, or cloisters where novices search for a missing lover. The thematic universe of these slides sessions includes of dark woods and landscapes, medieval ruins and castles with their own basements, crypts and passageways filled with ghosts, night noises, chains, skeletons, demons, even hybrid and monstrous creatures that mingled with mythology, such as the head of Medusa or the winged gryphon. The human being, except when referrering to great personalities famous people, is usually represented by men who are monks or hermits; and women are generally virgins, novices, nuns, witches or fortune tellers. These motifs remained popular for many years in the taste of the audience, which as was evidenced by the systematic inclusion of phantasmagorias in the magic lantern soirées throughout the nineteenth century.

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Title

Description

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.

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Burlesque

Description

Magic lantern slides classified within the burlesque genre are defined as having three specific properties, in addition to the scenic generic properties: (1) The recording and level of codification of their images through pictorial and / or printing techniques; (2) a medium complexity in staging —slides were designed to be shown with some kind of funny comment and / or some form of musical accompaniment—; and (3) the use of cultural contents from certain minor dramatic traditions — dances, musical numbers, illusionism, declamation, imitation, humor, pantomime, shadows and silhouettes, or circus arts —including acrobatics, juggling or samples of biological rarities or trained animals.
Among burlesque magic lantern slides, those that refer to actions that seek to ridicule someone or something are very frequent. In human interaction, the slides present their subjects in two ways, either in fun or harmfull: they use parody and exaggeration of the features and actions of a character in order to ridicule a topic, either glorifying the socially unacceptable, or denigrating the socially dignified. These slides are connected to variety shows and directly related to the tradition of the American vaudeville, the French cabaret, or the British pantomime and music hall.

Theme

Burlesque

Description

Magic lantern slides classified within the burlesque genre are defined as having three specific properties, in addition to the scenic generic properties: (1) The recording and level of codification of their images through pictorial and / or printing techniques; (2) a medium complexity in staging —slides were designed to be shown with some kind of funny comment and / or some form of musical accompaniment—; and (3) the use of cultural contents from certain minor dramatic traditions — dances, musical numbers, illusionism, declamation, imitation, humor, pantomime, shadows and silhouettes, or circus arts —including acrobatics, juggling or samples of biological rarities or trained animals.
Among burlesque magic lantern slides, those that refer to actions that seek to ridicule someone or something are very frequent. In human interaction, the slides present their subjects in two ways, either in fun or harmfull: they use parody and exaggeration of the features and actions of a character in order to ridicule a topic, either glorifying the socially unacceptable, or denigrating the socially dignified. These slides are connected to variety shows and directly related to the tradition of the American vaudeville, the French cabaret, or the British pantomime and music hall.

Theme

Burlesque

Description

Magic lantern slides classified within the burlesque genre are defined as having three specific properties, in addition to the scenic generic properties: (1) The recording and level of codification of their images through pictorial and / or printing techniques; (2) a medium complexity in staging —slides were designed to be shown with some kind of funny comment and / or some form of musical accompaniment—; and (3) the use of cultural contents from certain minor dramatic traditions — dances, musical numbers, illusionism, declamation, imitation, humor, pantomime, shadows and silhouettes, or circus arts —including acrobatics, juggling or samples of biological rarities or trained animals.
Among burlesque magic lantern slides, those that refer to actions that seek to ridicule someone or something are very frequent. In human interaction, the slides present their subjects in two ways, either in fun or harmfull: they use parody and exaggeration of the features and actions of a character in order to ridicule a topic, either glorifying the socially unacceptable, or denigrating the socially dignified. These slides are connected to variety shows and directly related to the tradition of the American vaudeville, the French cabaret, or the British pantomime and music hall.

Theme

Burlesque

Description

Magic lantern slides classified within the burlesque genre are defined as having three specific properties, in addition to the scenic generic properties: (1) The recording and level of codification of their images through pictorial and / or printing techniques; (2) a medium complexity in staging —slides were designed to be shown with some kind of funny comment and / or some form of musical accompaniment—; and (3) the use of cultural contents from certain minor dramatic traditions — dances, musical numbers, illusionism, declamation, imitation, humor, pantomime, shadows and silhouettes, or circus arts —including acrobatics, juggling or samples of biological rarities or trained animals.
Among burlesque magic lantern slides, those that refer to actions that seek to ridicule someone or something are very frequent. In human interaction, the slides present their subjects in two ways, either in fun or harmfull: they use parody and exaggeration of the features and actions of a character in order to ridicule a topic, either glorifying the socially unacceptable, or denigrating the socially dignified. These slides are connected to variety shows and directly related to the tradition of the American vaudeville, the French cabaret, or the British pantomime and music hall.

Theme

Burlesque

Description

Magic lantern slides classified within the burlesque genre are defined as having three specific properties, in addition to the scenic generic properties: (1) The recording and level of codification of their images through pictorial and / or printing techniques; (2) a medium complexity in staging —slides were designed to be shown with some kind of funny comment and / or some form of musical accompaniment—; and (3) the use of cultural contents from certain minor dramatic traditions — dances, musical numbers, illusionism, declamation, imitation, humor, pantomime, shadows and silhouettes, or circus arts —including acrobatics, juggling or samples of biological rarities or trained animals.
Among burlesque magic lantern slides, those that refer to actions that seek to ridicule someone or something are very frequent. In human interaction, the slides present their subjects in two ways, either in fun or harmfull: they use parody and exaggeration of the features and actions of a character in order to ridicule a topic, either glorifying the socially unacceptable, or denigrating the socially dignified. These slides are connected to variety shows and directly related to the tradition of the American vaudeville, the French cabaret, or the British pantomime and music hall.

Theme

Description

Theme

Burlesque

Description

Magic lantern slides classified within the burlesque genre are defined as having three specific properties, in addition to the scenic generic properties: (1) The recording and level of codification of their images through pictorial and / or printing techniques; (2) a medium complexity in staging —slides were designed to be shown with some kind of funny comment and / or some form of musical accompaniment—; and (3) the use of cultural contents from certain minor dramatic traditions — dances, musical numbers, illusionism, declamation, imitation, humor, pantomime, shadows and silhouettes, or circus arts —including acrobatics, juggling or samples of biological rarities or trained animals.
Among burlesque magic lantern slides, those that refer to actions that seek to ridicule someone or something are very frequent. In human interaction, the slides present their subjects in two ways, either in fun or harmfull: they use parody and exaggeration of the features and actions of a character in order to ridicule a topic, either glorifying the socially unacceptable, or denigrating the socially dignified. These slides are connected to variety shows and directly related to the tradition of the American vaudeville, the French cabaret, or the British pantomime and music hall.

Theme

Burlesque

Description

Magic lantern slides classified within the burlesque genre are defined as having three specific properties, in addition to the scenic generic properties: (1) The recording and level of codification of their images through pictorial and / or printing techniques; (2) a medium complexity in staging —slides were designed to be shown with some kind of funny comment and / or some form of musical accompaniment—; and (3) the use of cultural contents from certain minor dramatic traditions — dances, musical numbers, illusionism, declamation, imitation, humor, pantomime, shadows and silhouettes, or circus arts —including acrobatics, juggling or samples of biological rarities or trained animals.
Among burlesque magic lantern slides, those that refer to actions that seek to ridicule someone or something are very frequent. In human interaction, the slides present their subjects in two ways, either in fun or harmfull: they use parody and exaggeration of the features and actions of a character in order to ridicule a topic, either glorifying the socially unacceptable, or denigrating the socially dignified. These slides are connected to variety shows and directly related to the tradition of the American vaudeville, the French cabaret, or the British pantomime and music hall.