Commons:WikiProject Magic Lantern Film Loops
This WikiProject will be the page on which to coordinate the sharing of chromolithographic film loops from the Swiss Film Archive's collection. The cinematographic magic lantern are toys from the beginning of the 20th century, magic lanterns that brought to life brief moments of colored animations. Still mysterious, the technique is based on rotoscopy, that is to say that scenes were transferred on famous cinematographic subjects such as the serpentine dance. Then the subjects were printed on film by a chromolithographic process. The project now consists in making these digitized loops accessible but also in trying to identify them. Indeed, several manufacturers are at the origin of these toys and these films and it is a question, by a collaborative project, of dating them and of better describing them.
Categories[edit]
List of relevant categories[edit]
List of categories to be create and defined[edit]
- Category for each magic lantern described
- Category for each can described
- Category for magic lantern catalog
After launch of project:
- Category:Media contributed by Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Tools[edit]
Participants[edit]
Usernames of participants:
- Flor WMCH for Wikimedia CH (support to Cinémathèque suisse's staff)
- Cinémathèque suisse MAAM (talk) 12:37, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- Cinémathèque suisse CF (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2021 (UTC)