Panoramas of the Moving Image Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from NineteenthCentury Magic Lantern Shows (2005)

Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and dissolving views Brightly colored handcrafted slides depicting human activity fantasy figures and landscapes were typically presented with live narration music and sound effects in what became popular by the 1870s as Magic Lantern shows Experimental media artist Ernie Gehrs Panoramas of the Moving Image 2005 is a synchronized fivechannel video installation that uses eightyseven original slides and views selected from Gehrs personal collection and that of renowned precinema collector David Francis Projected side by side the slides create a mesmerizing widescreen spectacle A selection of vintage paper Zoetrope strips and Phenakistiscope discscomplementary artifacts of nineteenthcentury movingimage technologyare also on display