Other websites working on pre-cinema:

 

General Sites

 

• De Luikerwaal
  A Dutch site with a lot of good informatio about magic lanterns
• Early Visual Media
  Thomas Weynant's marvelous and ever changing site covering the gambit of visual entertainments, full of information and visual treats.
• Magic Lantern Society
  Web page of the British magic lantern Society. Lots of wonderful information and good organisation to join.
• The Magic Lantern Society of The United States and Canada
  Very useful site and an excellent organization to join.
• The American Magic Lantern Theater
  Web site of Terry Borton, America's leading lantern showman.
• Professor Mervyn Heard
  Site of Mervyn Heard, chairman of the British Magic Lantern Society, and great showman. Full of interesting material especially concerning the Phantasmagoria.
• Laterna Magica
  Herman Bollaert's site. Another
• http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/PEEP_SHOW.html
  A veru good site with information about the history of the peepshow
• http://paperdoc.de/
  Expert paper restoration

 

Publishers

 

• Füsslin Verlag
  A German publisher of good reference books on optical toys and the precinema.
• The Projection Box
  The site of British publishers Stephen herbert and Mo Heard. A  wide
  range of materials dealing with magic lanterns, optical toys and
  early cinema.   

 

Antique Dealers

 

• Pierre Patau and Elisabeth Calley's Site
  For those interested in purchasing optical toys, magic lanterns and a range of other beautiful toys this site always has a rich array of material for sale, with a lot of useful information.
• antiq-photo
  Sebastien Lemangnen's excellent site with a wide array of cameras, magic lanterns, and optical toys
• Brocante de l'Orangerie
  Francois Binetruy's site has a wide array of magic lanterns and optical toys for sale.