Long focus lantern slide projector.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1920
Materials
Wood, Brass, Tin, Asbestos
Measurements
370 x 230 x 720 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525233.1
Summary
Long focus lantern slide projector. The unit is mounted on a wooden platform which has brass levelling screws. The lamphouse is black tin which is isolated from the base and the optics by two asbestos panels. There is a consdenser before the slide panel and the lens is mounted in a brass cylinder. There is rack and pinion focussing and the lens cover rotates into place. On it is the inscription '16 in Phillip Harris & Co.Ltd., Birmingham, England.'
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