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Lantern Slide - 'Take Me Back to the Garden of Love', No.5, circa 1910-1920
Reg. No: MM 091158
- Summary:
- Number 5 in a set of 12 lantern slides (possibly incomplete) forming the series 'Take me back to the Garden of Love'. This slide is titled 'To have you reassuring me in hope, I long for you'.
Appears to be related to the set of 4 slides in the series titled 'What is the world without you?', photogaphed with the same actors.
This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Australian and Victorian Governments in 1975. David Francis was the curator of the National Film and Sound Archive of the British Film Institute as well as being a co-founder of the Museum of the Moving Image in London, which was operational between 1988 and 1999. - Description:
- Standard format (3¼ x 3¼ inch square) lantern slide, comprising hand-coloured photographic image printed on glass with black paper rectangular mask against image under protective glass cover plate; sealed with paper binding tape around edge.
- Description Of Content:
- Tableau vivant ("living picture") narrative scene depicting a man and woman standing with arms touching at a right angle to each other. The man has his head bent towards the woman and she is looking up into his face. They stand in a field or communal green, with a picket fence and two cottages behind them.
- Acquisition Information:
- Loan & Subsequent Donation from Australian Film Institute (AFI)
| Discipline: | Technology |
More information
| Tagged with: | lantern slides, cottages, courtships, picket fences, romance, deciduous trees |
| Themes this item is part of: | Francis Collection, Images & Image Making Collection |
| Primary Classification: | RECREATION & TOURISM |
| Secondary Classification: | Storytelling |
| Tertiary Classification: | romance |
| Format: | Lantern Slide: Hand Coloured; Standard (3¼ in. x 3¼ in.) |
| Date Made: | 1910-1920 |
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