Martha's Magic Lantern Show lives again in Dawson
Before there were talking pictures, there were silent ones, and before even that there were slide shows. Take a step further back still, and there were Magic Lantern Shows, projected from a cumbersomely lit wooden or metal box onto a large screen.
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