#magic lantern

[theinternetarchive]

geese in flight magic lantern slide turning, brass, copper, glass, zinc alloy, wood; 80mm diameter with single slot shutter; designed thomas ross c. 1890.

[kuutamosonaatti]

Magic lantern slides (ca.1700 - ca.1830)

[diana-andraste]

Naturliche Geistererscheinungen, illustration of a performance by magician Phylidor, from a 1791 handbill

[denisglillie]

transgender.....

Magic lantern slides depicting hand colored photographs made by Keith Jack of the Ross Sea Party (source)

[adventuresofalgy]

And so, to please the woodpecker – and some of his friends on tumblr who expressed a wish to see him do the tap-away (and who Algy rather suspected thought he couldn't do it…) – Algy hopped up onto a branch as night was falling, and commenced to tap away by the light of his magical pumpkin lantern, singing:

“I just flapped away And I tapped away I went this-a-way A bit up-a-way And then that-a-way. I spent half the day Over there a way; So the folk all heard ’Bout the fluffy bird And came this-a-way Doing the tap-a-way…"

[Algy is singing - and performing – a passage from his children's chapter book The Magical Midwinter Star, which will be reissued with a new cover in paperback this coming weekend, 14th/15th December 2024 and is currently available as a Kindle e-book.]

For further details of the tap-away please see Algy's previous adventure.

[navtastic]

Earth 47 Lobo and Magic Lantern (imagined as the Guy Gardner of that universe) comm for @transguygardner !

I’m a big fan of this idea of Guy as Magic Lantern

[heracliteanfire]

A magic lantern slide with a picture of the moon, shown at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, London, about 1860. Original photograph possibly by Warren de la Rue.

via Science Museum

image used under a CC by-nc-sa 4.0 licence

[bringbackwendellvaughn]