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
diaprojection.unblog.fr. A very interesting site of the magic lantern collection and the writings of Patrice Guérin.
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. - Claartje Pennink
A wonderful web toy store occassionally has optical toys
