‘Dissolving Spectators: Lantern History and the Royal Polytechnic Institution’

Mark Broughton

‘Dissolving Spectators: Lantern History and the Royal Polytechnic Institution’

Mark Broughton

School of Creative Arts

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There appear to be very few descriptions and drawings of lantern slides projected at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, compared with accounts and depictions of other kinds of magic lantern show. This paper asks firstly why this is so, and then goes on to ask what kind of historiography we need to reconstruct the events based on a paucity of evidence and what we might learn about the Royal Polytechnic's lantern spectaculars through this historiography.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Feb 2001
Event	Lantern Projections Colloquium - British Academy, London, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Feb 2001 → 24 Feb 2001

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Conference	Lantern Projections Colloquium
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	23/02/01 → 24/02/01

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