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Show Have You Ever Seen a Galanty? This was the old name for the shows put on at Christmas time by traveling travel-ing entertainers, who projected pro-jected shadow shows in pantomime, using silhouetted silhou-etted figures, by means of a magic lantern. The galanty shows were projected on a white sheet, or On the ceiling. ceil-ing. But before long, magic lanterns became cheap and plentiful, so people had them in their homes, with an array of colored slides and this became a popular home entertainment. Now, many years later, and in spite of the attractions attrac-tions of television, the lineal lin-eal descendants of those early magic lanterns continue con-tinue to fascinate us. Who hasn't seen a series of color slides, usually the well-known well-known "pictures of our trip," proudly shown by photographer friends? |