10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STEREOPTICON»
Discover the use of
stereopticon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stereopticon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the ...
The 1 857 census of that town described Eggleston as a clergyman.1 In
December 1863, Eggleston turned to stereopticon presentations as a means of
augmenting his income. On Christmas Day a St. Paul newspaper announced: "
One of our ...
Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn, 2005
2
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952
C. Francis Jenkins, in his 1898 Animated Pictures book, delineated their
similarities: “The fact is, the moving picture machine is simply a modified
stereopticon or lantern, i.e. a lantern equipped with a mechanical slide changer.
All stereopticons ...
3
The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907
With Biograph and other urban exhibition services offering a visual newspaper of
up-to-date news films, several prominent vaudeville managers introduced the
stereopticon to their vaudeville theaters on a similar basis. In early February 1898
...
4
A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of ...
Faulkner's reference to a stereopticon represents a historically precise visual
rendering of McCaslin family history. The technology was a late nineteenth-
century variation on the popular parlor device the stereoscope; whereas the
stereoscope ...
BY HORACE E. THOMAS New Stereopticon That Projects Colored Pictures
Large Enough to Cover. proceeds. Besides the ordinary sash and window frame,
it is fitted with a copper- wire screen, and it contains above it a box head into
which ...
6
Stereopticon Views in the History of Education in the ...
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7
The Vision of Richard Weaver
In contrast, the function of the modern journalist is to keep the focus of the
multitude upon the wall. To accomplish this end, the journalist employs that giant
machine, The Great Stereopticon.84 As Weaver observed, "It is the function of
this ...
8
Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving ...
12 (AAS). The link between Abel, Leyland, and Fallon was demonstrated by
Wells, “The Stereopticon Men,” pp. 4-5. Leyland, who also worked at the Pacific
Mills in Lawrence, was the lantern operator of “Fallon's Stereopticon,” while Abel
left ...
9
Peripheral Visions: Picturing Human Bodies in American ...
Margaret A. Toth. stereopticon show. The stereopticon, a device that anticipated
film technology, was a type of magic lantern that employed two lanterns, allowing
the stereopticon operator to move more quickly and neatly from one image to the
...
It is a safe presumption that they appeared only when the sky was overcast with
low- lying clouds, and that these were made to serve as a screen for the images
projected by a stereopticon. Rain clouds are usually at a height of about half a ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STEREOPTICON»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
stereopticon is used in the context of the following news items.
Polk County woman was champion gardener in early 1900s
A local newspaper reported April 12, 1928, that she had "lost a piano, phonograph, a collection of 150 records, a thousand stereopticon pictures and a lifetime ... «Statesman Journal, Jul 15»
Even in 1915, locals set off own fireworks
After the business meeting Mr. Moses Brown, the President, introduced Mr. Albert Bailey, Class of 1887, who gave a very interesting talk, with stereopticon views ... «Wicked Local Scituate, Jul 15»
As many as 500 vacuum cleaners among collections left behind
Along with hundreds of vacuum cleaners, Gorsuch began loading the first of an estimated 10,000 stereopticon cards — each one featuring a side-by-side pair of ... «HeraldNet, Jul 15»
500 vacuum cleaners, 10000 stereopticon cards: Marlowe Roeser …
500 vacuum cleaners, 10,000 stereopticon cards: Marlowe Roeser was a .... of an estimated 10,000 stereopticon cards — each one featuring a side-by-side pair ... «TheNewsTribune.com, Jun 15»
Rich and royal 'wonder cabinets' intriguing to collectors
Q: I have a stereopticon marked “Pat'd September 28, 1897.” I also have 21 picture cards that go with it, including “The President & Mrs. McKinley, Twentieth ... «HeraldNet, Jun 15»
Antiques By Terry and Kim Kovel
Stereopticons, sometimes called magic lanterns, were first made about 1850. A stereopticon has two lenses and uses glass slides to project images. «Buffalo News, Jun 15»
the rambling boy
(stereopticon photo courtesy of the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas collection, Southern ... There is a photograph, actually a stereopticon card, in the Larry Jones ... «Bigbendnow, Oct 14»
New Book Recalls Philadelphia's Role in Bringing Statue of Liberty …
(A stereopticon image of the Statue of Liberty's hand and torch on display at the Philadelphia Centennial, in 1876. Image provided by Library of Congress) ... «CBS Local, Jul 14»
High School, Raleigh, NC
A 'stereopticon' was an early type of “magic lantern,” or slide projector, fitted with double lenses so that one projected image appears to dissolve into the next as ... «Goodnight, Raleigh, Apr 14»
Edward Avis And The Art Of Mimicry
Stereopticon pictures were thrown on the screen, Mr Avis would whistle bird songs and one could almost imagine it was summer." According to this review, Avis ... «The Quietus, Dec 13»
