Cardboard box for set of Mickey Mouse glass lantern slides
Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse Ltd.
Category
Photographs
Date
1930 - 1935
Materials
Cardboard, Wood, Paper
Measurements
153 x 135 x 50 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520820.20
Summary
Cardboard box for a set of 19 black and white lantern slides from drawings, size 133x 34mm, of the story of Mickey Mouse. This is the original box. British Ensign Ltd produced a magic lantern and slides, based on the early Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies. The box lid is blue with a picture of Mickey Mouse on the cover. The base of the box is black. 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