Lezing met lichtbeelden ‘De oude Babylonisch-Assyrische beschaving’ door F. M. Th. Böhl, Groningen, 10 december 1920 & Leiden, ˃1927 Tijdens ons onderzoek in het archief van het Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO), in Leiden, stuitten wij op een manuscript van een lezing uit 1920 (herhaald in 1927 of later). Het behoort tot de nalatenschap…

This article discusses the added value of visualizing historical data, in particular the lantern lecture calendar of Haarlem during the social winter season of 1925/26. You access the article and the visualization here. da Rocha Gonçalves, Dulce. “Reconstructing a historical calendar: Haarlem and the lantern lecture season.” Sage Public Understanding of Science Blog, March 13,…

The article discusses the introduction of the optical lantern into higher education. It looks at the resistance that had to be overcome, namely its association with entertainment and also with children’s toys, and then looks at various disciplines that could benefit from projected images and belonged to the early adopters of the medium. Frank Kessler…

This article traces the debates on photography-based teaching aids that appeared in public discourse around 1910: their pedagogical and didactic merits, and their implementation. Clearly, reflections on film prevail, since there was much concern about its harmful effects on children. The first part of the text focuses on the rhetoricaland, sometimes, anecdotal level of the…

The article discusses similarities and differences concerning the position of the lecture in optical lantern and early film performances, in particular the temporal relations between the projected image and the oral comment. It looks at different examples and discusses some cases of combined slide and film projections. “The Voice of the Lecturer: Image-Word Relations in…

The Utrecht University professor of Chemistry, Ernst Cohen (1869-1944) gave lectures illustrated with an optical lantern between at least 1899 and1938. His presentations addressed different audiences, from colleagues at chemical conventions to members of societal and professional associations and audiences at adult education centres. The range of topics he covered was equally broad: from lectures…

Around 1900 the optical lantern had been adopted by scholars as a teaching aid in various academic disciplines as well as in outreach activities (as public illustrated lectures). Starting in 2018, Projecting Knowledge has studied academic uses and practices of knowledge dissemination with the lantern. During this two-day conference we would like to discuss and…

Symposium Order! Order! Making sense of the lantern lecture’s archival record April 28, 11AM – 5PM Teylers Museum, Spaarne 16, 2011 CH Haarlem language: English The current unfamiliarity with the medium of the (public) illustrated lecture is certainly not a matter of its unpopularity during the years our project’s research focuses on. Between the 1880s…

Keynote by Dr Emily Hayes from Oxford Brookes University: The Geographical Scene: the magic lantern in the discourse and discipline of fin de siècle British geography Slide 31 of [The Alps] (lecture: Royal Geographical Society, at least 23 slides, 1896-1897) Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 5111785. Geography was one of the fields that…

When in 1921 the French micro-cinematographist Jean Comandon gave a series of illustrated lectures in the Netherlands, a newspaper reported that Comandon showed “‘living’ jitter-pictures” – that is: films – “instead of the usual lantern slides”. To consider this as a remarkable fact, the author of the article clearly must have expected slide projections as…