Mickey Mouse glass lantern slides
Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse Ltd.
Category
Photographs
Date
1930 - 1935
Materials
Cardboard, Glass, Paper, Transparent film
Measurements
37 x 133 x 3 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520820
Summary
A box of 19 black and white hand drawn lantern slides from drawings, size 133 x 34mm, depicting stories of Mickey Mouse. Rectangular format with four circular images (24mm diameter) per slide, each slide has a red paper border. The set is in its original box. Made in England in the 1930s by the George Houghton Company, London, under their Ensign Limited brand, licensed from Disney. British Ensign Ltd produced a magic lantern and slides, based on the early Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies. The black and white images are printed on a thin sheet of film, the black mask is made of paper with punched holes. Film and paper mask are mounted between two glasses and the edges are bound with a strip of red gummed paper. Eleven sets were sold in pairs or grouped into this blue/black box. Two slotted wooden side-rails support the slides in pairs.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse Ltd., illustrator Ensign Limited, manufacturer