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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ne. I got to work and made about one hundred andtwenty slides to illustrate the lecture, *A Naturalist in theNew Forest. The lecture dealt with all phases of the life andhistory of the forest. Slides were made to illustrate thescenery, wild-flowers, insects, birds, animals, etc., peculiar tothe forest area. With few exceptions all were from life, as Ihad a good series of botanical and zoological negatives by me.About fifty per cent of the slides were carefully hand-colored,the remainder were varied colors of brown and black. Hencethere was no monotony on the screen. I found that my friend the curator had engaged a really finelantern and a very competent operator, and in spite of thethree or four cinemas running in the city the lecture hall waswell filled. Any doubt I might have had regarding the popu-larity of the single lantern was quite dispelled by the unquali-fied success of the evenings entertainment, and the curatorwas desirous that a similar lantern lecture should appear in 174
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w Q pqpqW 175 the next winters syllabus. So much for the popularity of thesingle lantern. Given good slides, well varied, well exhibited,I am convinced that it really comes as a positive relief to thenow ubiquitous cinema. Making lantern slides for the single lantern is in danger ofbecoming a lost art. The meticulous care expended on a lan-tern slide by the enthusiast of twenty years ago would prob-ably excite the derision of the majority of photographers ofto-day, but the lantern evenings of metropolitan photographicclubs bore unimpeachable witness to the success of their meth-ods. The contest for supremacy lay between coUodio-bromideand gelatino-bromide, with its variants, gelatine-chloride andchloro-bromide. Unmistakably collodio-bromide, eitherwashed or unwashed was a fascinating process to work andyielded superlative results. Wet collodion was par excellencethe professional lantern slide makers process, and gave bril-liant results with a minimum of trouble. But the properplace to

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