Recently, we've heard an awful lot about something called Magic Lantern, although generally as a piece of software, not in reference to the historical projection device. The original Magic Lantern – ...

The hum of a 104-year-old projector and the voice of historian Mike Zahs were the only sounds that could be heard as the audience looked at images that were more than a century old in a dark room in ...

Our display of pre-cinema optical devices will be on view in the second floor cases of Rare Books and Special Collections in Firestone Library for two more months. Included is this nineteenth-century ...