Biunial lantern slide projector with limelight illuminent
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Iron, Mahogany, Glass, Rubber
Measurements
650 x 500 x 260 mm (with cowl attached)
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525232.1
Summary
Biunial lantern slide projector with limelight illuminent. The lantern has a biunial metal lined mahogany body on a mahogany base board, with panelled mahogany doors to each side of both lamphouses. The doors each have a circular brass-mounted blue glass window with rotating brass cover, and there is a brass carrying handle on either side of the body. The lamphouse has a detachable russian iron cover and cowl, and there is a detachable black rear curtain with metal hanging rod. In front of the lamphouse is the mounting arrangement for the two lenses, with brass draw tubes, 4 inch condensers and wooden slide stages. At the rear of the lamphouses are the rubber tubes and valves for supplying oxygen and hydrogen to the limelight blow-through jets, with dissolver taps and by-pass, and screw adjusters to change the position of the illuminent within the lamphouse.
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