Guidebook to the Museum of Magic Visions in Padua, one of the most complete and best-known private collections of instruments for projection and painted glass slides. In addition to a catalogue of the museum's holdings, this book includes introductory essays (in English and Italian) by Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici, Gian Piero Brunetta, Stephen Herbert, Laurent Mannoni and Thaomas Ganz about both the Museum and the history and technology of the magic lantern. Other keywords: pre-cinema; proto-cinema; shadow puppet

Item number 28505
Category Book
Type Magic Lantern
Dimensions Oversize
Language English / Italian
Country of origin Italy
Related people Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici (Editor)

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection