The American annual of photography . BRIGHT AND BREEZY. WILLIAM FINDLAY. 173. A PLEA FOR THE SINGLE LANTERN By G. T. HARRIS N these days of widespread cinema perform-ances the single and biunial lanterns that afford-ed so much pleasure and entertainment to thelast generation are apt to be regarded as old-fashioned and useless for popular experience last winter, however, gave me the impressionthat there was still a niche for our old friend the single lan-tern slide. I was asked to give a lecture in a large city in theWest of England. The lecture was to be one of a series of edu-cat
The American annual of photography . BRIGHT AND BREEZY. WILLIAM FINDLAY. 173. A PLEA FOR THE SINGLE LANTERN By G. T. HARRIS N these days of widespread cinema perform-ances the single and biunial lanterns that afford-ed so much pleasure and entertainment to thelast generation are apt to be regarded as old-fashioned and useless for popular experience last winter, however, gave me the impressionthat there was still a niche for our old friend the single lan-tern slide. I was asked to give a lecture in a large city in theWest of England. The lecture was to be one of a series of edu-cational lectures given through the winter by the city museumauthorities, and were of a popular scientific character. Thechoice of a subject was left with myself. With some trepidation I asked the curator of the museum ifa lantern would be forthcoming if I decided on illustrating itwith lantern slides, and he good naturedly undertook to pro-vide one. I got to work and made about one hundred andtwenty slides to illustrate the lecture, *A Naturalist in theNew Forest. The lectur
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