Now online: ‘When it’s Moonlight on the Prairie’ and other songs and chromatropes A magic lantern show with Crank Williams and Patsy Decline for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 26 August 2023. The magic lantern slides: six mechanical chromatropes c. 1880s – 1890s; The Lights of London Town, York & Son, 1892; Won’t You Buy My Pretty Flowers, Bamforth & Co., 1897; The Gin Fiend, c. 1885; When It’s Moonlight on the Prairie, c. 1910; ‘Goodnight’ mechanical chromatrope, c. c. 1880s – 1890s. Crank Williams and Patsy Decline in performance with the magic lantern.
Martyn Jolly 