LONG before the birth of the motion picture, audiences worldwide were entertained by magic lantern shows that brought popular stories, temperance tales and ghosts and ghouls to vivid life. Magic ...

The hum of a 104-year-old projector and the voice of historian Mike Zahs were the only sounds that could be heard as the audience looked at images that were more than a century old in a dark room in ...

The Witte Museum's current exhibitions include “The World Through Magic Lanterns,” an exhibit of pieces from the Jack Judson Magic Lantern Castle Collections. The lanterns were used from the 1700s ...

Canon might want to consider putting a certain Trammell Hudson on the payroll. Hudson has developed an enhancement to the firmware of the Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR camera to make the already ...

Eric Hennig’s handmade “magic lanterns” are eye-catching at any time of year, but they seem particularly appropriate during these intimate, gray-sky infused autumn days leading up to Halloween. The ...

MOUNT HOLLY – Take a step back in time and marvel at the beauty and atmosphere of 19th century entertainment during Burlington County’s Art of the Magic Lantern performance festival and exhibit.

Canon's June 2nd firmware update for the 5D MkII added much-needed manual exposure control to the video-shooting part of its DSLR, but there is still a long way to go until the camera's software ...

Titles pages for the first 1843 edition of A Christmas Carol, with engravings by John Leech. Source: University of Iowa Libraries How did a gothic tale about ghosts become a Christmas classic? While ...

Dec. 21 -- In order to stop criminals and terrorists who may be plotting evil deeds using computers and the Internet, the FBI is developing a tool that is more commonly associated with computer ...