The Magic Lantern Society Newsletter No 116 June 2014

The Newsletter contains an account by Jeremy Fisher of the Society's Spring Meeting at The Swedenborg Society in London on 26 April 2014 and articles including 'Four Panoramic Slides: The Ascent Of Mont Blanc' by Mike and Theresa Simkin, a report on the'"Twixt Two Worlds' Exhibition" at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 11 June - 31 August 2014 and then at the Towner Museum, Eastbourne, 10 October 2014 - 5 January 2015 and 'A Carte-De-Visite Clock' by Mike Smith. The Newsletter also contains the Agenda for the Magic Lantern Society Summer Meeting in Lacey Green Millennium Hall, Princes Risborough, Bucks., on 26 July 2014. [Note: The Magic Lantern Society Newsletter is now combined with The New Magic Lantern Journal in a single publication]. The New Magic Lantern Journal, Vol. 11 No. 9: Contents - 'Beautiful Sets Of Finely Painted Glasses For The Burning Mirror or, The Dutch Diafanorama' by Helmut Walde; 'Paul And Acres' (focusing on the collaboration of R. W. Paul and Birt Acres) by Colin Fryer; 'England's Earliest Film Studios' by Bill Barnes; 'Benjamin John Malden (1838-1933): A Prominent Lecturer Of The Royal Polytechnic' by Lester Smith.