magic lantern

Example Sentences

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It sprinkles the open parts of the interior with sunlight during the day and glows like a magic lantern at night.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2017

It’s a magic lantern slide that was shown to patients, like a sort of early Rorschach inkblot.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2017

Here are a few of the magic lantern slides and a link to a film Orlov has made that show some of the black and white prints.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2013

At the Connecticut Antiques Center a 100-year-old tin slide projector called a magic lantern was lurking on a bottom shelf with dusty cardboard boxes of about 50 glass slides.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2011

The demoness and the demon girl would go to almost any lecturer who was giving a magic lantern show with slides of his travels.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep