Magic lantern set effects slide (Blind man's bluff)

France, c. 1880

Object On display
Photograph by Egmont Contreras, ACMI

Wooden, handpainted magic lantern set effects slide with two slipping slides. The slide depicts a boy wearing a blindfold, when the slide is pulled left and right, girls move around him.

Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Previously on display

22 February 2026

ACMI: Gallery 1

Credits

manufacturer

E. Mazo

Production places
France
Production dates
c. 1880

Appears in

Group of items

Mechanical magic lantern slides

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

AEO179676

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-02. Play and Illusion → MI-02-C01 → Panel A7

Object Types

3D Object

Glass slide/Pictorial

Materials

wood, ink, glass, metal

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