Magic lantern slide projection

At the conclusion of the Australian National University, School of Art and Design, Art History and Art Theory seminar, ‘Led By The Beam’, where Dr Keren Hammerschlag, Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney and myself discussed the extraordinary phenomenon of Holman Hunt’s famous pre-raphaelite painting The Light of the World, Anita Pollard and myself projected ten original magic lantern slides of the painting, each one hand-coloured slightly differently. As the images of the painting dissolved one into the other the audience heard Charles Gounod’s sacred song ‘Nazareth’. This had been sung to the magic lantern projection of the painting by the celebrity singer George Snazelle during his tour to Australia in the 1889. We used a Newton and Co. biunnial magic lantern from the same period.

Documentation of the six minute projection is now on Youtube.