A simple optical device using slides to display a magnified image on a white screen, wall, etc., in a darkened room. Also figurative.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > magic lantern show > magic lantern (6) magic lantern1696 A simple optical device using slides to display a magnified image on a white screen, wall, etc., in a darkened room. Also figurative. Eidophusikona1800 A kind of magic lantern showing a series of pictures illustrative of some occurrence, invented by Philip de Loutherbourg 1780. epidiascope1903 A magic lantern made to project images of both opaque and transparent objects. diascope1937 A magic lantern or projector by which the image on a transparent slide or the like is projected on to a screen, wall, etc. Cf. epidiascope, n., epi… rotoscope1938 Film. Originally: a device which projects an enlarged image of a single frame of filmed live action on to a frosted glass screen, so that it can be… lantern- spec. = magic lantern, n. Chiefly attributive (see compounds 1a). |
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