magic lantern

Summary

magic lantern ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (497 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• magic lantern's image is recorded as Laterna magica Aulendorf.jpg^[2].
• magic lantern's subclass of is recorded as projector^[3].
• magic lantern's Commons category is recorded as Magic lanterns^[4].
• magic lantern's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 3287^[5].
• magic lantern's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05716^[6].
• magic lantern's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX5189106^[7].
• magic lantern's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300211124^[8].
• magic lantern's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.418^[9].
• magic lantern's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• magic lantern's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• magic lantern's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[12].
• magic lantern's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[13].
• magic lantern's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000153528^[14].
• magic lantern's different from is recorded as Latarnia czarnoksięzka^[15].
• magic lantern's different from is recorded as magic lantern^[16].
• magic lantern's uses is recorded as lantern slide^[17].
• magic lantern's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as lanterne-magique^[18].
• magic lantern's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as lantern-slides^[19].
• magic lantern's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as laterna_magica^[20].
• magic lantern's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 11422^[21].
• magic lantern's Joconde object type ID is recorded as T505-1946^[22].
• magic lantern's Lex ID is recorded as laterna_magica^[23].
• magic lantern's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 65390^[24].
• magic lantern's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as magic-lantern^[25].
• magic lantern's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 5304^[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for magic lantern include Magic Lantern^[27], a software^[28] and The Magic Lantern^[29], a short film^[30], directed by Georges Méliès^[31].

Why It Matters

magic lantern ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (497 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for it include Magic Lantern^[27], a software^[28] and The Magic Lantern^[29], a short film^[30], directed by Georges Méliès^[31].