Magic lantern set effects slide (Dentist pulling a tooth)

Object On display
Photograph by Egmont Contreras, ACMI

Hand painted magic lantern set effects slipping slide in wooden frame (dentist pulling a tooth). As the slipping slide is pulled, a dentist pulls out a tooth from a patient.

Photograph by Egmont Contreras, ACMI

Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Previously on display

22 February 2026

ACMI: Gallery 1

Credits

creator

Maker not documented

Appears in

Group of items

Mechanical magic lantern slides

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

AEO179575

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-02. Play and Illusion → MI-02-C01 → Panel A2

Measurements

120 x 179 x 9mm

Object Types

3D Object

Glass slide/Pictorial

Materials

wood, glass, ink, metal

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