Editing Magic lantern (section)

==Today==
Some enthusiasts claim that the brilliant quality of color in lantern slides is unsurpassed by successive projection media. The magic lantern and lantern slides are still popular with collectors and can be found in many museums like, for example, in the [[Museum of Precinema]] in [[Padua]] where 60 magic lanterns and more than 10000 original slides are preserved. However, of the original lanterns from the first 150 years after its invention only 28 are known to still exist (as of 2009).<ref name =Rossell2009>{{citation|periodical=The Magic Lantern Gazette|url=https://library.sdsu.edu/pdf/scua/ML_Gazette/MLGvol21no01.pdf|last=Rossell|first=Deac|title=Early Magic Lantern Illustrations: What Can They Tell Us About Magic Lantern History?|year=2009}}</ref> Because the original slides are fragile, rather than display or project them, museums often digitize the slides for exhibition.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Youlden |first=Mary |date=2018-01-11 |title=Fragile images of Devon on show for the first time in a century {{!}} The Exeter Daily |language=en |work=The Exeter Daily |url=https://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/local-news/fragile-images-devon-show-first-time-century |access-date=2022-09-22}}</ref>

A collaborative research project of several European universities called ''A Million Pictures'' started in June 2015 and lasted until May 2018. It addresses the sustainable preservation of the massive, untapped heritage resource of the tens of thousands of lantern slides in the collections of libraries and museums across Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://a-million-pictures.wp.hum.uu.nl/|title=A Million Pictures {{pipe}} Magic Lantern Slide Heritage|website=A Million Pictures}}</ref><gallery mode="packed-hover" caption="Magic lantern images by Theodore Green, from the [[Royal Albert Memorial Museum]].">
File:Armillaria mellea - Theodore Green - 15 1933 1.jpg|[[Armillaria mellea|Armillaria melea]]
File:Cantharellus cibarius - Theodore Green - 15 1933 4.jpg|[[Cantharellus cibarius]]
File:Cichorium intybus (Chicory or Succory) - Theodore Green - 26 1931 23.jpg|[[Chicory|Chichorium intybus]]
File:Russula drimeia - Theodore Green - 36 1933 13.jpg|Russell [[Drimia|drimeia]]
</gallery>Genuine public lantern shows are relatively rare. Several regular performers claim they are the only one of their kind in their part of the world. These include Pierre Albanese and glass harmonica player [[Thomas Bloch]] live Magic Lantern/Phantasmagoria shows since 2008 in Europe<ref name="thomasbloch">{{cite web|url=http://www.thomasbloch.net/en_performances.html|author=Thomas Bloch|title=THOMAS BLOCH ** ONDES MARTENOT - GLASSHARMONICA - CRISTAL BASCHET --- performances, ensembles...|website=thomasbloch.net|access-date=28 August 2017}}</ref> and The American Magic-Lantern Theater.<ref name="magiclanternshows">{{cite web|url=http://www.magiclanternshows.com/introducing.htm|website=magiclanternshows.com|title=American Magic-Lantern Theater -|access-date=28 August 2017}}</ref> The Magic Lantern Society maintains a list of active lanternists, which contains more than 20 performers in the U.K. and around eight performers in other parts of the world (Europe, U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/lanternists/index.php|title=Lanternists - The Magic Lantern Society|website=www.magiclantern.org.uk}}</ref>

Dutch theatre group Lichtbende produces contemporary magical light spectacles and workshops with magic lanterns.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://logister.home.xs4all.nl/Lichtbende/EDUCATIE/E-EDUCATIE-TOVERLANTAARN.htm|title=LICHTBENDE|website=logister.home.xs4all.nl}}</ref>