This group provides resources for research on magic lanterns, optical projection, pre-cinema history, the phantasmagoria, and related topics.   It includes links to hundreds of relevant web pages, a library of digital books on magic lanterns, a research bibliography of scholarly articles, a direct link to back issues of The Magic Lantern Gazette, and other material related to magic lanterns.

Please send items to add to the Group Library to kentwood.wells@uconn.edu